tweedy

• And this is the question that plagued me throughout the picture and plagues me still: Why, in every scene, were Ewan MacGregor's pants hiked up so high that his cuffs hung six inches above his ankles, making him look like a tweedy yokel, Huck Finn with leather patches on his elbows? —  FSF - April2006
• Neal was Ted Smalley's significant other: a tweedy, rumpled, bearded, bespectacled secondhand bookseller whose thinning ginger-colored hair frequently stood up in peaks because he finger-combed it while perusing the tomes in his Polk Street store. —  Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
• He was looking rather tweedy, leather patches at the elbows kind of thing, with big boots and a cap. —  Celtic Riddle
• Mostly women, some tweedy-looking men, and even a regular guy or two. —  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens - What Dreams May Come
• I have been searching for a tweedy yarn to make the Garter Yoke Cardigan (from Knit. 1) but as of yet have had no luck … Kathmandu Aran was too bulky, and I don't love other tweeds … but I do want to make the sweater tweedy, as garter stitch is so pretty in tweed. —  Green apples - a knitting blog

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