tweedy
adjective
made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like.
tweediness
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a word derived from
tweedy.
Example Sentences
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The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
