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Meanings of tweedy in English

Of textiles; having a rough surface.

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Usage of tweedy in English
1
A tweedy man with a small mustache stood in the doorway.
Talents, Incorporated
2
Essentially with what amounts to a tweedy shrug of the shoulders.
News.com.au
3
It's a word loved by tweedy academics because of its ambiguity and obscurity.
The Irish Times
4
And then there were the tweedy ones, but only a few.
The Hustler
5
You see the rumpled tweedy fellow talking to St. Clare?
Arcadia falls
6
It's a far cry from a tweedy headshrinking practice.
Wired
7
I notice that Jeremy Paxman has taken to wearing a tweedy three-piece suit on Newsnight.
The Guardian
8
Needless to say, the tweedy Yale professors weren't thrilled.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
9
It was a blue serge, tweedy-type pinafore dress and I hated it with a vengeance.
The Irish Times
10
It was a good crowd-academicsociologists rubbing tweedy elbows with spiky-hairedGoths in black overcoats.
Second glance
11
The interior had a tweedy, earth-tone, Brady Bunch vibe.
Delta girls
12
When Aria saw a hand curled over the edge of the tweedy love seat, she jumped.
Perfect
13
This post is not some huffy, tweedy rant about the superiority of films to video games.
The Irish Times
14
It was a sports coat, tweedy and sharp.
When I stop talking, you'll know i'm dead: useful stories from a...
15
He wore beige corduroy slacks and a tweedy sports coat, an open-neck shirt and tan loafers.
Desperate cargo
16
He is a bit older than I, well dressed, tweedy in that good, Giles-y sort of way.
Cleaving
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