Harris tweed

noun

A loosely woven tweed made by hand on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

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nounHarris tweed (countable and uncountable, plural Harris tweeds)

plural Harris tweeds

  1. countableuncountableA 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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