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tweel
Scots · 1800s
"twill, a diagonal weave"
a Scots dialect word for twill, a woven fabric pattern
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tweed
English · 1830s
"a rough woolen fabric"
possibly reinforced by association with the River Tweed in Scotland, home to the fabric's mills
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