Plaid (or “tartan”)
A woven pattern. Great for shirts, pants, blankets, scarves, walls, and whole buildings.
Catholic kitsch
Especially patron saint tchotchkes.
Obsolete science
Historical scientific theories that are elaborately wrong. See: miasma theory, tired light, tooth worm.
Wodehouse
“Very good," I said coldly. "In that case, tinkerty tonk.” And I meant it to sting.
