Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
Tweed
твидtvid
thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland
Examples
5 sentencesTom is wearing an old tweed suit.
Tom was wearing an old tweed suit.
ruТом был в старом твидовом костюме.
He is dressed in an old tweed suit.
Tom was dressed in an old tweed suit.
A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach.
Translations
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Origin
Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“aAttested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.
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Forms
plural: tweedsSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable