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tweed

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9
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9
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5
Pronunciation
/twiːd/

Definition of tweed

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
    “MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]”
    ““Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.””
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
    “MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]”
    ““Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.””

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A river in the United Kingdom; a river in the Scottish Borders area which for part of its length forms the border between Scotland and England. It flows into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth, England.
    “The Tweed is a salmon river, and the Blessing of the Nets ceremony heralds the start of the fishing season.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A municipality and community therein, in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.
  4. (countable, uncountable)A local government area in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, named after the Tweed River; in full, Tweed Shire.
  5. (countable, uncountable)A river in this region of New South Wales.
  6. (countable)A surname.

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Etymology

Attested 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…

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Attested 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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