Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A small island between the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands of northern Scotland. Fair Isle is famous for its knitted woolen garments with distinctive colored patterns.
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- noun knitting A
traditional knitting technique used to createpatterns with multiplecolours .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The transport committee said ministers should drop the plan to lose the permanent flotilla of emergency tugs, boats brought in 1994 and now based in the Dover Straits, the South-West Approaches, the Minches, and at Fair Isle.
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The transport committee said ministers should drop the plan to lose the permanent flotilla of emergency tugs, boats brought in 1994 and now based in the Dover Straits, the South-West Approaches, the Minches, and at Fair Isle.
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The shadow of guilt hung over her like a cloud darkening an already gloomy sky, becoming tears that dripped onto her cardigan, making no marks in the Fair Isle pattern.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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As I listen to it coming and coming and coming, I watch Troy through my binoculars and pick up a swallow flying out of the wind through the nearest oaks, a single bird on the point of leaving the land, like the swallow on Fair Isle.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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One of the first places in the world where passage birds were logged and studied and where the secrets of migration began to be investigated and unlocked, Fair Isle has been known for its migrants as long as anywhere.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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As the old Good Shepherd turned a corner in the sea, from the calm of the Shetland harbor south toward Fair Isle, an invisible hand from above slid the hatch and from then on we were locked in the cabin.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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In the first decade of the twentieth century, the early student of migration William Eagle Clarke was among the first to suspect and then prove that Fair Isle was a magnet for migrants.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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I told him about my first trip south to Fair Isle.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The Shogun, dressed in flannels and a Fair Isle pullover that made him look like an overage schoolboy, looked sympathetic.
Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006
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Tommy saw a pair of tourists veer away from the rest and come down toward the loch: a tall young man and a tall young woman, both in shorts and Fair Isle sweaters.
The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001
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