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• Later Mattie, the 'head beetler' of my father's family, arrived wearing his customary tweed jacket.2016, Patrick Deeley, The Hurley Maker's Son. From the entry head beetler
• Olivey tweed suits used to be quite common for country-house wear.2014 March 5, Russell Smith, “Just how much green can I add to my wardrobe?”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company…. From the entry olivey
• I wear a tweed sportjacket with lots of green wool in it.2014 March 5, Russell Smith, “Just how much green can I add to my wardrobe?”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company…. From the entry olivey
• There are also more structured bags like tweed that is a bit Mary Poppinsy.1998 February 24, Belinda Gunn, “Handbags”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 50,071, section “Good Looks”, page 10. From the entry Mary Poppinsy
• Designed by Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman, in ivory souffléd wool tweed.1963, Vogue - Volume 142, page 17. From the entry soufflé
• It was a small head with a tweed cap on the top of it.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 128. From the entry choker
• Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone tweed.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry herringbone
• He was a Viking in shabby tweeds, inaureoled in his hair.1920, Storm Jameson, The Happy Highways, New York: Century, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 157. From the entry inaureole
• The cloths which give the best results are vicunas, boxcloths, closely woven tweeds, meltons, and overcoatings.1901, Paul Nooncree Hasluck (editor), Tailoring (part of the “Work” Handbooks series), page 21. From the entry stoat
• Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer).2007 January 3, Michael Lowenthal, “Two”, in Charity Girl, 1. edition (fiction), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN…. From the entry liberty sausage
• I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.spring 2005, Ronald Frame, “Critical Paranoia”, in Michigan Quarterly Review, page 285. From the entry kitsch
• To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212. From the entry camel
• The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.1951 May, “Notes and News: New Coaches for C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348. From the entry antimacassar
• Heroines will be suited and booted in tweeds this winter.[1928 December 19, “Screen Life in Hollywood: Tailored shoes”, in Mandan Daily Pioneer, volume XV, number 198, Mandan, N.D.: Pioneer…. From the entry suited and booted
• Or perhaps these vegetables had absorbed by mere contact with his tweeds the subtle secret of his own immarcescibility.1923, Max Beerbohm, Yet Again, page 221. From the entry immarcescibility
• He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage. From the entry stock
• This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.1912 November – 1914 September, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “(please specify the page)”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, London; New…. From the entry piebald
• Styles favored by Dark Academics encompass anything worn in the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: houndstooth, tweed, crisp button-downs, cardigans, and vests.2021 December 14, Alexandra Pauly, “Goblincore? Dark Academia? TikTok's Weird, Confusing Aesthetics, Explained”, in Highsnobiety, archived…. From the entry dark academic
• Don't travel on it then, she was told in the boarding house, or you'll find yourself jammed in, breathing shoulderfuls of damp tweed.2012, Frances Osborne, Park Lane. From the entry shoulderful
• Brenda wears brown tweed and shoulderpads.2009, Fowler, Ruth, Girl, Undressed: On Stripping in New York City, Penguin Books, page 64. From the entry shoulderpad
• He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.1993, John Banville, Ghosts. From the entry oxblood
• Waxed cotton coats, thornproof trousers and lightweight gumboots are standard kit on most shoots with the tweeds being brought out for the more formal days.1983, Joanna Household, Debrett's guide to Britain: where to go and what to see. From the entry thornproof
• She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture.1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500. From the entry fieldling
• Andrew Brown put in a water-race which drove a wheel with which wheat was crushed at the Cooerwull mill, where later tweed was made.1938 December 29, The Lithgow Mercury, NSW, Australia, page 4, column 4. From the entry water race
• Anyway, that is Dorothy Mackaill's latest street costume; a tweed suit and shoes of the same material trimmed with a little leather.[1928 December 19, “Screen Life in Hollywood: Tailored shoes”, in Mandan Daily Pioneer, volume XV, number 198, Mandan, N.D.: Pioneer…. From the entry suited and booted
• Three-piece lounge suits, made in tweed checks and plaids, and the knickerbocker suits which were popular for countrywear, were worn with turned-down collars and broad ties.1992, Sue Atkinson, “A brief history of fashion”, in Making and Dressing Dolls House Dolls in ¹⁄₁₂ Scale, David & Charles, published 1999…. From the entry countrywear
• The doctor is young and cute but successful enough to have a big house and a small car and good tweeds as well as well-fitting jeans and wool sweaters.1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7. From the entry tweeds
• 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)…. From the entry Harris tweed
• “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905…. From the entry magnificent
• When I was young, he owned gray tweed dresspants he called his "ice cream britches," and when he wore them, every other Sunday or so, he bought us ice cream.1979, Dorothy Marie Wilson, Re-membering: Pieces from My Life, page 78. From the entry dresspants

Meaning of tweed

1. noun A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

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Questions about tweed in a sentence

How do you use tweed in a sentence?

Tweed is used as a noun. For example: “He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.””

What is a short sentence with tweed?

“Brenda wears brown tweed and shoulderpads.”

What does tweed mean?

Tweed means a coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.