noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tweed/wool/sheepskin/leather coat
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I love her black leather coat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brown
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He had a many-pocketed shooting jacket, brown , with a flat brown tweed cap.
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He lay around all afternoon in his brown tweed suit, and even pulled a button off the jacket.
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He wears an old-fashioned brown tweed jacket, looks like it has biscuit crumbs sprinkled all over it.
■ NOUN
cap
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He had a many-pocketed shooting jacket, brown, with a flat brown tweed cap .
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Above them, in the pulpit, a black magician in a tweed cap held his hands high in blasphemous benediction.
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He is wearing a tweed cap and an ancient blue trenchcoat.
coat
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She wore a tweed coat with a Cairngorm brooch in the lapel and a furry green felt hat.
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I was expecting a trim man in a tweed coat , but my expectations were wrong.
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They were both in their fifties - she in a tweed coat , he in a sports Jacket and flannels.
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You can wear a tweed coat if you like but you risk being cold and wet.
jacket
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
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Charles Gullans always wore some sort of tweed jacket and a huge pair of saddle oxfords.
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket .
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He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
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For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.
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He was still in his riding clothes, well-cut jodhpurs and an old tweed jacket .
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The familiar tweed jackets appeared in fresh fruit pastel shades enlivened with a spattering of matched sequins.
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She smelt the newness of his clothes, his tweed jacket , the soft shirt, the corduroys.
overcoat
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Doone followed us into the kitchen, removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit.
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Tessa wasn't even dressed - she was wearing his old tweed overcoat over her pyjamas.
skirt
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Jenny, in a purple tweed skirt and a leather jerkin and black boots, stepped delicately inside.
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The girl was in a long tweed skirt and long boots so that not an inch of leg was to be seen.
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She was dressed in a sensible tweed skirt and a rather elegant cashmere sweater.
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Her tweed skirt was soaking and its friction rubbed sore patches behind her knees.
suit
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A little later, neatly dressed in tweed suit and cashmere jersey she climbed the stairs to Phoebe's flat.
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He lay around all afternoon in his brown tweed suit , and even pulled a button off the jacket.
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Behind the table sat a large three-piece tweed suit .
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He was not in uniform, unusual for him, wore a tweed suit , white shirt and black tie.
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In the opposite corner was a portly man in a baggy tweed suit .
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But he stooped and appeared to shamble as he walked, chunky and untidy in his tweed suit .
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She was a large lady, dressed in a tweed suit , with a pleasingly direct manner.
■ VERB
wear
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She wore a tweed coat with a Cairngorm brooch in the lapel and a furry green felt hat.
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She wearing tweed only because she was selling tweed.
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He wore a tweed hat, the brim turned down, a waterproof shooting jacket and wellingtons.
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Charles Gullans always wore some sort of tweed jacket and a huge pair of saddle oxfords.
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He is wearing a tweed cap and an ancient blue trenchcoat.
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He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
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He was not in uniform, unusual for him, wore a tweed suit, white shirt and black tie.
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You can wear a tweed coat if you like but you risk being cold and wet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
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He placed his Harris tweed on his lap, over folded hands.
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He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side.
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He was dressed for an Edwardian shooting party in a full suit of tweed plus fours.
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I was expecting a trim man in a tweed coat, but my expectations were wrong.
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
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She wearing tweed only because she was selling tweed.