How to pronounce tweed
American English pronunciation
TWEED
- IPA
- /ˈtwid/
- Syllables
- TWEED (1 syllable)
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What tweed means
A rough wool cloth woven with flecks of color
In a sentence: Professor Hill wore a brown tweed jacket with patches on the elbows.
Where it comes from: It has been used since the 1830s and is probably a shortened form of an older word for a kind of woven cloth. A Scottish story says a merchant misread "tweel" as Tweed, the name of a river.
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