tweed

tweed
\ \ [19] The story attached to the origin of tweed is that it resulted from a misreading of tweel, or perhaps more plausibly the past form tweeled, Scottish variants of twill or twilled, under the influence of the name of the Scottish river Tweed. Early accounts date its coinage to 1831, and ascribe it to the London cloth merchant James Locke (although Locke himself in his book Tweed and Don 1860 does not make any such claim). The term was in general use by 1850, and it was registered as a trademark. (Twill itself is etymologically ‘two-threaded’ cloth; it is a compound formed from twi- ‘two’ and Latin līcium ‘thread’.)

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  • tweed — tweed …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • tweed — [ twid ] n. m. • 1844 « vêtement »; mot angl., altér. de l écossais tweel, angl. twill « étoffe croisée », probablt sous l infl. de Tweed, fleuve côtier entre l Angleterre et l Écosse ♦ Tissu de laine cardée (d abord fabriqué en Écosse), avec… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Tweed — may refer to:*Tweed (cloth), a type of fabric using the twill weave *Harris Tweed, a luxury twill, handwoven on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland *Tweed, Ontario, Canada *Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in New Haven, Connecticut (IATA …   Wikipedia

  • Tweed — 〈[ twi:d] m. 6〉 1. 〈urspr.〉 Gewebe aus handgesponnener schott. Cheviotwolle 2. 〈heute〉 kleingemusterter, locker gewebter Stoff aus Streichgarn ● er trägt gern Tweedjacketts [nach dem schottisch nordengl. Fluss Tweed] * * * Tweed [tvi:t , engl.:… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Tweed — /tweed/, n. 1. William Marcy /mahr see/ ( Boss Tweed ), 1823 78, U.S. politician. 2. a river flowing E from S Scotland along part of the NE boundary of England into the North Sea. 97 mi. (156 km) long. 3. a male given name. * * * I Medium to… …   Universalium

  • Tweed — steht für: Tweed (Vereinigtes Königreich), ein Fluss im englisch schottischen Grenzgebiet Tweed (New South Wales), ein Fluss in New South Wales, Australien Tweed (Neuseeland), ein Fluss in Neuseeland Tweed (Gewebe), ein Textilgewebe Tweed ist der …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • tweed — /tweed/, n. 1. a coarse wool cloth in a variety of weaves and colors, either hand spun and handwoven in Scotland or reproduced, often by machine, elsewhere. 2. tweeds, garments made of this cloth. 3. a paper having a rough surface, used esp. for… …   Universalium

  • tweed — s.n. Stofă confecţionată din fire de lână fină cu fibre lungi, de culori diferite. [pr.: tŭid] – cuv. engl. Trimis de ana zecheru, 29.06.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  TWEED s.n. v. tuid. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN …   Dicționar Român

  • tweed — tweed; tweed·dale; tweed·ed; tweed·i·ness; …   English syllables

  • tweed — [twi:d] n [U] [Date: 1800 1900; : Scottish English; Origin: tweel twill ; influenced by Tweed river in Scotland] 1.) rough ↑woollen cloth woven from threads of different colours, used mostly to make ↑jackets, suits, and coats ▪ a thick tweed suit …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Tweed — [tvi:t, engl. twi:d] der; s, Plur. s u. e <aus gleichbed. engl. tweed, nach dem schott. Fluss Tweed (der durch das ursprüngliche Herstellungsgebiet fließt), zu schott. tweel »Köper«> kräftiges, oft meliertes Woll od. Mischgewebe mit kleiner …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

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