| 单词 | tweed mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmastweed mill attributive and in other combinations, 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. ΚΠ 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 495/1 Specimens of Scotch tweed trouserings. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 497/2 Striped and Tweed cloth. 1864 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 494 A young gentleman in tweed suit and wideawake. 1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye i. 37 Tweed-clad tourists are everywhere. 1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid I. i. 8 His tweed stalking cap was drawn over his eyes. 1888 Daily News 26 Sept. 7/1 A tweed finisher, employed at Dunsdale mill. 1890 E. Warren Laughing Eyes 61 Tweed-suited monthly-return-ticket visitors. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point iii. 46 This huge bent old man, pipe-smoking and tweed-jacketed. 1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited x. 156 The only really interesting person..was Robert Miller, to whose tweed mill he directed us. 1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades ii. v. 138 The recalcitrant bowler-hatted or tweed-skirted natives. < as lemmas |
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