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tweed|twiːd|
[A trade name originating in an accidental misreading of tweel, Sc. form of twill (or a misunderstanding of an abbreviated tweeled twilled a.1), helped by association with the River Tweed.
The form appears to have originated in or about 1831, but published statements are not quite in accord as to the circumstances which gave rise to it. The more important of these accounts are to be found in Jas. Locke's Tweed & Don (1860) 37, in a paper by D. Watson in Trans. Hawick Archæol. Soc. (1868) 14, and in A. Barlow's Weaving (1878) 49. Barlow and others attribute the misreading of the word to Jas. Locke himself (who was a London merchant), but Locke in his own book does not claim to have been the originator of the name, which had become fully current by 1850.]
a. A twilled woollen cloth of somewhat rough surface, and of great variety of texture, originally and still chiefly made in the south of Scotland (usually of two or more colours combined in the same yarn); inferior kinds are made of wool with a mixture of shoddy or cotton. In pl., cloths or garments of this kind.
1847McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. 667 Narrow cloths, of various kinds, known by the name of Tweeds,..are extensively produced at Galashiels and Jedburgh, but especially at the former. They used, also, to be produced in considerable quantities at Hawick. 1859Jephson Brittany i. 5 A suit of stout grey tweed. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 91 Lank office-boys, in..corduroys and tweeds too short, and jackets..too short for them. 1869C. Gibbon R. Gray iv, Garments of rough home-spun tweed. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 505 Tweed, a woollen cloth woven of short lengths of wool, and lightly felted and milled, the yarn being dyed before woven. It is soft, durable, and flexible. 1894Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 186 We do look disreputable enough in our rough tweeds.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tweed cap, tweed cloth, tweed clothes, tweed finisher, tweed mill, tweed suit, tweed trousering, tweed-weaving; tweed-clad, tweed-covered, tweed-jacketed, tweed-skirted, tweed-suited adjs.
1851Catal. Gt. Exhib. iii. 495/1 Specimens of Scotch tweed trouserings. Ibid. 497/2 Striped and Tweed cloth. 1864Fraser's Mag. Apr. 494 A young gentleman in tweed suit and wideawake. 1865Alex. Smith Summ. Skye i. 37 Tweed-clad tourists are everywhere. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, His tweed-stalking-cap was drawn over his eyes. 1888Daily News 26 Sept. 7/1 A tweed finisher, employed at Dunsdale mill. 1890E. Warren Laughing Eyes 61 Tweed-suited monthly-return-ticket visitors. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point iii. 46 This huge bent old man, pipe-smoking and tweed-jacketed. 1949C. Graves Ireland Revisited x. 156 The only really interesting person..was Robert Miller, to whose tweed mill he directed us. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. v. 138 The recalcitrant bowler-hatted or tweed-skirted natives. |