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tweeds

tweeds noun: clothing made of this material. Also the plural of tweed.

Noun

tweeds

  1. Clothing made of this material.
    • 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
  2. (colloquial) Trousers.
    • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Tweeds

Tweeds

  1. (plural) plural of Tweed

Also used as

tweeds is also the plural of tweed.

Phrases with tweeds

Questions about tweeds

What does tweeds mean?
Tweeds means clothing made of this material.
What part of speech is tweeds?
Tweeds can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near tweeds in the dictionary

  1. tweedlers
  2. tweedles
  3. tweedlike
  4. tweedling
  5. Tweedmouth
  6. tweeds
  7. Tweedsmuir
  8. tweedy
  9. Tweedys
  10. tweek
  11. tweeker

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