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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamish View Post
    The St. David's tartan is also known, at least in Wales, as the 'Brithwe Dewi Sant'.
    May I ask what that means? I know "Dewi Sant" = St. David. Is "Brithwe" the Welsh for tartan?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
    May I ask what that means? I know "Dewi Sant" = St. David. Is "Brithwe" the Welsh for tartan?
    that's my understanding. You may also see Dewi Sant Cenedlaethol for St. David's National.

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    Tartan looks good as a box kilt
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    Very nice looking tartan. Thank you for sharing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
    May I ask what that means? I know "Dewi Sant" = St. David. Is "Brithwe" the Welsh for tartan?
    There isn't a directly translatable Welsh word for "tartan" - "brithwe" is used in the closest sense to it though and the word means "weave".
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    Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
    There isn't a directly translatable Welsh word for "tartan" - "brithwe" is used in the closest sense to it though and the word means "weave".
    That is pretty much as I had worked it out, Trefor. Many thanks for coming up with the answer to Galician's question.

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    Yes, thanks for that. Now I am wondering if "tartan" itself might not simply mean that as well. Hmmmm.........

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    That's a really nice kilt, looks good.

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    You wear Rocky's & Kelly's work well! Congrats!

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