cardie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“What is this, Halloween?” ask the T-Birds when Grease’s Danny Zuko swaps his black leather jacket for a white and red Rydell High-branded cardie towards the end of this vintage romcom.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2019
Made of smooth, dreamy mohair, his unwashed, cigarette-burned, olive-green cardie became the Turin shroud of indie rock, as he ascended to the patron saint of musical sorrow.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2019
No one batted an eyelid when, dressed in jeans and a cardie, he walked along the canal towpath to Nando’s two days before giving birth.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018
Marks is a profoundly agreeable fellow, crumpled of face, eloquent of pronouncement and unassuming in his enormous sloppy cardie, packet of rolling baccy escaping from his shirt pocket.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2013
They're an elegant, leggy pair: she shorn and angular in black, he feline in a lemon cardie.
From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2010
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