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Tweedy   /twˈidi/   Listen
Tweedy

adjective
1.
Of textiles; having a rough surface.  Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed.
2.
(of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy.






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"Tweedy" Quotes from Famous Books



... would buy a new bicycle—a different make from his own, at the nearest shop; would rig himself out, at some ready-made tailor's, with a fresh tourist suit—probably an ostentatiously tweedy bicycling suit; and, with that in his luggage-carrier, would make straight on his machine for the country. He could change in some copse, and bury his own clothes, avoiding the blunders he has seen in others. Perhaps he might ride for the first twenty or thirty miles out of London to some minor side-station, ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen



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