tweeds
See also: Tweeds
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tweeds
- plural of tweed.
- Clothing made of this material.
- 1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:
- The doctor is young and cute but successful enough to have a big house and a small car and good tweeds as well as well-fitting jeans and wool sweaters.
- (colloquial) Trousers.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.