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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tweed/twiːd/

▶noun a rough-surfaced woollen cloth, typically of mixed flecked colours, originally produced in Scotland.

■ (tweeds) clothes made of tweed.

– origin C19: orig. a misreading of tweel, Scots form of twill, influenced by assoc. with the river Tweed.

'tweed' also found in these Oxford entries:

Cheviot - crottle - Harris tweed - lovat - Norfolk jacket - tweedy

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