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Fair Isle definition

Fair Isle

knitted in a pattern of colorful bands; esp., designating a wool sweater with a patterned yoke

Etymology: after Fair Isle, Scot island where pattern originated

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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