tweed

• n. 花呢；花呢服裝
• n. (Tweed)人名；(英)特威德

訛誤詞，來自蘇格蘭語 tweel,來自 twill 的蘇格蘭語發音。可能是受蘇格蘭河流 River Tweed 影響而產生該錯誤，另一方麵該河流恰巧又流經蘇格蘭紡織工業區。

tweed

tweed: [19] The story attached to the origin of tweed is that it resulted from a misreading of tweel, or perhaps more plausibly the past form tweeled, Scottish variants of twill or twilled, under the influence of the name of the Scottish river Tweed. Early accounts date its coinage to 1831, and ascribe it to the London cloth merchant James Locke (although Locke himself in his book Tweed and Don 1860 does not make any such claim). The term was in general use by 1850, and it was registered as a trademark. (Twill itself is etymologically ‘two-threaded’ cloth; it is a compound formed from twi- ‘two’ and Latin līcium ‘thread’.)

tweed (n.)

1839, a trade name for a type of woolen fabric:

MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing on the 15th of April 2 ¼ yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 ¼ yards of woollen cloth, called doe skin, value 17s., the goods of George Priestley Heap. [London Central Criminal Court minutes of evidence from 1839]

This apparently developed from the "Tweed Fishing or Travelling Trousers" advertised in numerous publications from 1834-1838 by the clothing house of Doudney & Son, 49 Lombard Street.

So celebrated has amateur rod-fishing in the Tweed become, that the proper costume of the sportsman has now become an object of speculation among the London tailors, one of whom advertises among other articles of dress "Tweed Fishing Trousers." The anglers who have so long established their head-quarters at Kelso, for the purpose of enjoying the amusement of salmon fishing in the Tweed, have had excellent sport lately : some of the most skilful having caught five or six salmon a day, weighing from six to fourteen pounds each. ["New Sporting Magazine," June 1837]

Thus ultimately named for the River Tweed in Scotland. The place name has not been explained, and it is perhaps pre-Celtic and non-Indo-European.

1. The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days.

她穿的那件粗花呢夾克已經很舊了。

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2. I am so pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Tweed.

很高興認識您，特威德先生。

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3. He was wearing a tweed suit that looked tailor-made.

他身穿一套粗花呢西服，看上去像是量身定做的。

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4. He was garbed in sweater, tweed jacket, and flying boots.

他穿著套頭毛衣和粗花呢夾克，腳蹬一雙飛行靴。

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5. I was wearing my tweed suit.

我穿著我的花呢套裝。

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