Flannel vs Tweed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between flannel and tweed

is that flannel is (uncountable) a soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers while tweed is a coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

As an adjective flannel

is made of.

As a verb flannel

is to rub with a flannel.

flannel

English

(wikipedia flannel)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Noun

(uncountable) A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]

First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.

(New Zealand, British) A washcloth.

(slang) Soothing plausible untruth and half truth, claptrap - ''"Don't talk flannel" [http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/56/messages/708.html][http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-synonyms/claptrap][http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971103]

Derived terms

* flannellike * flannelmouth * unflannelled

Adjective

(-)

made of

Verb

(en verb)

to rub with a flannel

to flatter; suck up to

tweed

English

(wikipedia tweed)

Noun

(en noun)

A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=13 citation , passage=“Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”}}

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