Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - tweed
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(tweeds) 1. Tweed is a thick woollen cloth, often woven from different coloured threads. N-MASS 2. Someone who is wearing tweeds is wearing a tweed suit. ...an academic, dressed in tweeds and smoking a pipe. N-PLURAL ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. biographical name William Marcy 1823-1878 Boss ~ American politician II. geographical name river 97 miles (156 kilometers) SE Scotland & NE England flowing E into North Sea TWEED noun Etymology: probably short for Scots ~ling, twidling twilled cloth Date: 1841 1. a rough woolen fabric made usually in twill weaves and used especially for suits and coats 2. plural ~ clothing; specifically a ~ suit ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a rough-surfaced woollen cloth, usu. of mixed flecked colours, orig. produced in Scotland. 2 (in pl.) clothes made of tweed. Etymology: orig. a misreading of tweel, Sc. form of TWILL, infl. by assoc. with the river Tweed ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. твид (материя) 2. одежда из твида to wear tweeds to the races —- пойти на бега в твидовом костюме ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1847 (perhaps as early as 1831), a trade name said to have developed from a misreading (supposedly by London hatter James Locke) of tweel, Scottish variant of twill, possibly influenced by the river Tweed in Scotland. Tweedy "characteristic of the country or suburban set" first recorded 1912. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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