plaid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plaid
Adjective
  • The actor wore what looks like a black, strapless, blazer-minidress/tunic over a slouchy blouse with a dress-shirt-style striped pattern.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The Civic Standard’s headquarters, in Hardwick, Vermont. Before curtain, Friedman, wearing a green-and-black striped velvet dress and red cowboy boots, instructed the actors to go out into the lobby in costume and socialize with the audience.
    Chelsea Edgar, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Demos wore a checkered suit, while Shahi donned a slinky metallic dress with a thigh-high slit and off-the-shoulder detailing.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The digital collection features a checkered suit, pixel leopard hoodie and video game pants — free of charge for fitting, sharing and saving to digital wardrobes within the ZERO10 app.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • Lopez’s Spider Woman gets a bad pixie wig and even more garish goth costuming appropriate for a bewitching, bitchy succubus.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The show’s graphic designer Tansy Michaud designed the cover, which, with its garish red-and-yellow cover and text about self-actualization, was meant to be a little graphically obnoxious.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The approach has led to some of the most gaudy numbers of Young’s career.
    Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Even more impressive, on top of his gaudy offensive stats, Eichel is also taking far more defensive-zone starts than most star forwards around the NHL, and is also Vegas’ top penalty-killing forward.
    Jesse Granger, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Plaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaid. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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