tweed
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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
In a bedroom near pictures of her champions, Calvacca has laid out two St. John tweed skirtsuits, one pink and one purple, both with metallic-thread accents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 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
The King was in a kilt and tweed jacket while the Queen wore a blue coat with a tartan lapel and a red hat decorated with a feather.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025
Both were dressed as Muggles, though very inexpertly: The man with the watch wore a tweed suit with thigh-length galoshes; his colleague, a kilt and a poncho.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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