(n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.
Example Sentences:
(1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May says election results are about fighting for ‘best Brexit deal’ – video Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, praised the result in Northumberland as the north-east of England had not had a Conservative-run council for decades.
(3) Maybe poor old David Cameron might have fared a lot better had he dropped the “call me Dave” stuff and turned up to Downing Street in tweed plus-fours and a dead grouse under his arm.
(4) Perhaps old money has just taken to wearing Paul Smith jeans rather than Harris tweed .
(5) He was wearing a beautiful tweed jacket, which had a slightly high waistband and he looked so beautiful.
(6) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
(7) One side is all heavy-set coppers bursting out of their dark suits; the other home counties sorts in scarves and tweed, and David Davis.
(8) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(9) He is wearing a pair of old tweed trousers, a yellow and blue T-shirt that says "Dada" and blue sandals.
(10) The protocol involves five steps: extraction of third molars because not useful in the orthodontic treatment, placement of a edgewise appliance following the Tweed technique, use of a neuromuscular deprogramming appliance, an orthopedic appliance associated with physiotherapy.
(11) For that, we analyse statistically the cephalometrics variations comparing the differents angles and measurements of the RICKETTS, TWEED and STEINER analyses before and after treatment.
(12) In a letter sent to Wallace, Tweed wrote that the politician made “an extremely serious, false and defamatory allegation” in a tweet.
(13) You might say Stephen Fry was a fogey (tweed jackets, always banging on about opera) but he is also an expert on smartphones , as he is on everything else.
(14) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
(15) Dissatisified with relapsing Class II cases, recurrence and aggravation of crowding, and what he felt were bimaxillary full faces, Tweed and others, circa 1935, redirected the profession back to extractions with a more disciplined approach to treatment by the removal of four first premolars.
(16) Mary, by email Well, plush tweeds and thick knits are absolutely essential.
(17) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
(18) Ilves was dressed in his trademark tweeds and bow tie, a counterpoint to his mission to make Estonia the most digitally progressive country in Europe .
(19) There was also a tendency to grey flannels and tweed jackets, and a "deplorable old raincoat".
(20) The male doctor wearing a tweed jacket and informal shirt and tie scored fewer low marks and this was therefore the least disliked of the outfits.
Twill
Definition:
(v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
(v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
(v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.
(v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) "If United do get Louis van Gaal, twill be like getting a hybrid of Guardiola and Mourinho - Guardiola's methodology and Mourinho's arrogance and occasional (everytime) madness."
(3) Heavier-weight fabrics, such as denim and twill, are better barriers.
(4) The fabrics were 4.8-ox twill weave Nomex aramide, 4.5-oz stabilized twill weave polybenzimidazole, 4.8-oz plain weave experimental high-temperature polymer (HT4), and 4.8-oz plain weave Nomex aramide (New Weave Nomex or NWN).
(5) She's also making chocolate caramel twills which she will fill with truffles.
(6) The twill fabric was a better barrier to transmission than the plain fabrics.