Tweeds vs Weeds - What's the difference?
tweeds | weeds |
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Clothing made of this material.
(colloquial) Trousers.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds , like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
(weed)
(obsolete) Clothes.
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As nouns the difference between tweeds and weeds
is that tweeds is while weeds is or weeds can be (obsolete) clothes.As a verb weeds is
(weed).tweeds
English
Noun
(head)Anagrams
* *weeds
English
Etymology 1
Inflected form of (weed).Noun
(head)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.