Synonyms:
tweed
Meaning: thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland
Usage examples
He had not a single regiment north of the Tweed, or indeed within many miles of that river.
In tam o'shanter and tweed skirt Carol felt herself a college junior going out to play hockey.
He is to conduct the Scottish prisoners to the borders, and then to fall upon Scotland with all his strength, unless you previously surrender, not only Berwick, but Stirling, and the whole of the district between the Forth and the Tweed, into his hands."
He didn't look particularly regal, even on that high seat--with his ruddy outdoorsman's face and his ragged gray mustache and his old tweed coat spotted with pipe-ashes, he might have been any of the dozen-odd country-gentleman neighbors of von Schlichten's boyhood in the Argentine.