tweed

See also: Tweed

English

Tweed

Etymology

• From Scots tweel, with confusion with the River Tweed, near which much cloth of this type was produced.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

tweed (countable and uncountable, plural tweeds)

1. 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

coarse woolen fabric

• Czech: tvíd m
• Esperanto: tvido
• Finnish: tweed (fi), tweedkangas
• French: tweed (fr) m
• Georgian: ტვიდი (ka) (ṭvidi)
• German: Tweed m
• Greek: τουίντ n (touínt)

• Irish: bréidín m
• Italian: tweed m
• Macedonian: твид m (tvid)
• Portuguese: tweed (pt) m
• Russian: твид (ru) m (tvid)
• Scottish Gaelic: clò m

Anagrams

• dewet, tewed

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Finnish

Etymology

< English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ʋiːd/

Noun

tweed

1. tweed (fabric)

Declension

Inflection of tweed (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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

Synonyms

• tweedkangas

Derived terms

Derived terms

• tweedhame
• tweedkangas

• tweedkankainen
• tweedtakki

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twid/

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed

Further reading

• “tweed” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Noun

tweed m (uncountable)

1. tweed (coarse woolen fabric)