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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- From Scots tweel, with confusion with the River Tweed, near which much cloth of this type was produced.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)
- A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled![1]:
- “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
Translations[edit]
coarse woolen fabric
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English tweed.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tweed
- tweed (fabric)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of tweed (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tweed | tweedit | |
genitive | tweedin | tweedien | |
partitive | tweediä | tweedejä | |
illative | tweediin | tweedeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tweed | tweedit | |
accusative | nom. | tweed | tweedit |
gen. | tweedin | ||
genitive | tweedin | tweedien | |
partitive | tweediä | tweedejä | |
inessive | tweedissä | tweedeissä | |
elative | tweedistä | tweedeistä | |
illative | tweediin | tweedeihin | |
adessive | tweedillä | tweedeillä | |
ablative | tweediltä | tweedeiltä | |
allative | tweedille | tweedeille | |
essive | tweedinä | tweedeinä | |
translative | tweediksi | tweedeiksi | |
instructive | — | tweedein | |
abessive | tweedittä | tweedeittä | |
comitative | — | tweedeineen |
Possessive forms of tweed (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | tweedini | tweedimme |
2nd person | tweedisi | tweedinne |
3rd person | tweedinsä |
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Derived terms
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tweed m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “tweed” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
tweed m (uncountable)
- tweed (coarse woolen fabric)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tweed m (uncountable)
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- en:Fabrics
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