Example Sentences

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Tweeds and a hat will do to transform West into Higgins.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2013

The irreverent glamming up of the formal and normal, from the accurately named Dashing Tweeds, contrasted with the traditional tailors of Savile Row.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2012

Tweeds courts the youngest audience of the three.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as he attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place in his social tool kit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harris Tweeds The "Harris Tweeds," made on the Island of Lewis and Harris, north of Scotland, are in the old style by the "crofters."

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz