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tweed

[tweed] / twid /


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They are waulking the wool, an age-old tradition for rendering tweed soft and airtight so that it might keep the shepherds of the Scottish Hebrides warm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Boxy tweed boucle jackets with fringed trims and structured brightly coloured handbags were the order of day, with various materials including lace also on display.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“He was wearing a tweed jacket and looked like a professor,” said Raskin, now at investigations firm Nardello & Co.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Henry, in tweed suits and suitably nebbishy glasses, feels more like a company man than his two colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

I barrel into the smell of pipe tobacco and the scratch of his tweed suit.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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