tweed
tweed (twēd)
Tweed (twēd)
Tweed, William Marcy (mär′sē) 1823-78; U.S. politician & corrupt Tammany leader: called Boss Tweed
Tweed (twēd)
river in SE Scotland flowing east through NE England into the North Sea: 97 mi (156 km)
Converse of object
- produce: Langholm, with a population of about 2500 is noted for the fine tweeds produced by its weaving industry.
- weave: Once woven, tweeds are sent back to the mill where every inch is examined.
- use: We always aim to use Scottish tweed in our collections.
Adjective modifier
- top: Top quality tweeds in field coats and jackets to matching waistcoats, breeks and caps.
- Scottish: We always aim to use Scottish tweed in our collections.
- brown: I look out and see yards upon yards of brown tweed stretched out on a rack in the field.
- gray: He'll have purple and black velvet browband and I'll be in gray tweed with purple tie and brooch.
- Welsh: What a variety of Welsh tweeds was piled up in that long, low room!
- Scotch: He noticed that he was dressed in a dark suit of Scotch tweed, over which he wore a light overcoat.
Modifies a noun
- jacket: Women's tweed jackets made from locally woven Harris Tweed?
- skirt: Very unusual was a tweed skirt with a front inset of rainbow knit wool.
- trouser: So out came the soft brown tweed trousers, matching handbag and shoes, and back went the jeans and trainers.
- suit: The tweed suit will prove a solace to his feelings.
- coat: A body protector worn underneath a tweed coat is also a good idea.
- cap: Ragged men crouched in doorways held out their tweed caps.
Noun used with modifier
- quality: The company produces a range of accessories in cashmere and makes high quality tweed and leather bags under its Lovat Bag Company operation.
- wool: A classic pure wool tweed set for game shooting and dog training.
Possessives
- consultant: Consultant's tweed was not available on the open market, it was not available within the myriads of outlets of the rag-trade.
Preposition: in
- coat: Top quality tweeds in field coats and jackets to matching waistcoats, breeks and caps.
Now Sark rins o'er the Solway sands, An' Tweed rins to the ocean, To mark where England's province stands, Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed, The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie.
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
