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Harris tweed en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
    • So Enid and Malone walked up and down outside. As they were so engaged another taxi drove up and a large, untidy-looking, ungainly bearded man in a suit of Harris tweed stepped out of it. 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

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Deriveds

harris tweed · harris