breacán — meaning in English

English meaning

• tartan noun A woven pattern of criss-crossing coloured stripes, traditionally associated with Scottish clans, or fabric with this pattern.

Senses

breacán is used for these senses in English:

• brambling A finch, Fringilla montifringilla of northern Eurasia, the male having a black head in summer and an orange breast with white belly and a long white rump.
• tartan (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.

tartan — full definition

1. noun A woven pattern of criss-crossing coloured stripes, traditionally associated with Scottish clans, or fabric with this pattern.
2. adj Made of, or patterned like, tartan.