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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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tweed
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Woollen twill cloth much used for jackets and suits, usually of a rough texture and particularly associated with Scotland. The word first appears in the mid-19C and the traditional explanation (not entirely convincing) is that a clerk in the London firm of James Lock accidentally transcribed the Scottish 'tweel' (for twill) as tweed, and that the name stuck because much of the cloth was made in the region of the river Tweed.
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