tweed

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

tweed [tweed tweeds] BrE [twiːd] NAmE [twiːd] noun
1. uncountable a type of thick rough cloth made of wool that has small spots of different coloured thread in it
•a tweed jacket
2. tweedsplural clothes made of tweed

Word Origin:
mid 19th cent.: originally a misreading of tweel, Scots form of ↑twill, influenced by association with the River Tweed.

Culture:
tweed
Tweed is a rough, thick woollen cloth made with threads of several colours woven togetherto make various patterns. The most common patterns are checks or ‘herringbone’, which has lines arranged like the bones of a fish. Many tweeds are in shades of grey or brown, and have a few brighter coloured threads woven in. Famous tweeds include Donegal cloth from Ireland and Harris tweed.
Tweed is warm and hard-wearing and is traditionally used for outdoor clothes, such as jackets and coats, and for women’s skirts. Men’s flat caps are also made of tweed. In Britain tweed clothes are more often worn by older people, and was considered old-fashioned until the 1990s when it became fashionable. Americans think of tweed as something that never goes in or out of fashion. In America tweed is fairly casual, so a tweed jacket could be worn to work by a professor, but probably not by a lawyer.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  flannel, gabardine, white