Tweed Definition

twēd
tweeds
noun
tweeds
A wool fabric with a rough surface, in any of various twill weaves of two or more colors or shades.
Webster's New World
A suit, skirt, etc. of this.
Webster's New World
Clothing made of this fabric.
American Heritage
Clothes of tweed.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Tweed

Noun

Singular:
tweed
Plural:
tweeds

Origin of Tweed

  • Alteration (influenced by the river Tweed) of Scots tweel twill from Middle English twile twill

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Scots tweel, with confusion with the River Tweed.

    From Wiktionary

Tweed Sentence Examples

  • What frontier was adopted after Agricola's departure, whether Tweed or Cheviot or other, is unknown.

  • There is a large manufacture of tweed.

  • Two bridges connect the town with the south side of the Tweed.

  • The battle of Carham (1018) had given this land to the Scots, and Canute consented to draw the border line of England at the Tweed instead of at the Firth of Forth, when Malcolm did him homage.

  • It was not Stephens fault that the boundary of England did not permanently recede from the Tweed and the Soiway to the Tyne and the Ribble.

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