tweed
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Across the aisle, a young man with shaggy hair and a tweed blazer noticed the book on my lap.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
"I wanted to see whether, when you strip away the usual Chanel signatures - the tweed, the jewelled buttons - you can still get to that essence," he told WWD.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Designed by her dressmaker Norman Hartnell, the Queen first wore her Harris tweed jacket and Balmoral Tartan skirt in the 1950s.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
Another is Harris tweed, the manufacturer of a fabric handwoven in the Outer Hebrides, which has risen from near death and now employs hundreds, selling its products all over the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
He jammed his toes into the desert boots and leaped as well as he could into the tweed trousers, which he could hardly button at the waist.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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