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Harris tweed

Harris tweed noun: a loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

Noun

Harris tweed (countable and uncountable, plural Harris tweeds)

  1. A loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
    • So Enid and Malone walked up and down outside. As they were so engaged another taxi drove up and a large, untidy-looking, ungainly bearded man in a suit of Harris tweed stepped out of it.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Forms of Harris tweed

pluralHarris tweeds

Words formed from Harris tweed

Questions about Harris tweed

What does Harris tweed mean?
Harris tweed means a loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
What part of speech is Harris tweed?
Harris tweed is a noun.
What is the plural of Harris tweed?
The plural of Harris tweed is Harris tweeds.

Words near Harris tweed in the dictionary

  1. Harris line
  2. Harris lines
  3. Harris Manchester
  4. Harris Park
  5. Harris platelet syndrome
  6. Harris tweed
  7. Harris tweeds
  8. Harris's hawk
  9. Harris's hawks
  10. Harris's sparrow
  11. Harris's sparrows

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