tweeded

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's "Fetges," painted in the late 1920s after his heyday as a furniture and interior designer had passed, turns a French village into a collage of line and plane, the tangle of surfaces of roofs and house-fronts, in a whole spectrum of white and gray light, emerging from a patchwork of fields that are either thickly tweeded with vegetables or fallow in pale beige and tan.

Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show 2011

Knightley, last seen on the West End stage playing a Hollywood actress in The Misanthrope, delivers her part – of a bobbed and tweeded 1930s schoolmistress falsely accused of having a lesbian affair – with a fine-boned bleakness.

The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review 2011

When the Byrnes arrived, stockinged and tweeded, he was good and well drunk.

Two Poets Carol Reid 2011

The Director, with a subtle and inventive mind behind a moustached and tweeded exterior, wondered just what else he could do, short of praying for a miracle, to find the missing colt.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

The leader, an elderly man, fully tweeded, bald, and with an ex-army jut to his chin, led us through the gloom and between gorse bushes out onto the sparser heath of the common.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

He's a transplanted Brit who, rather than the tweeded Viennese father of his profession, looks like Ozzy Osbourne.

An American In Berlin 2007

Some heathers have added flecks that give them a tweeded appearance.

A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002

The Director, with a subtle and inventive mind behind a moustached and tweeded exterior, wondered just what else he could do, short of praying for a miracle, to find the missing colt.

Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

A long sectional sofa of the softest, creamy ivory leather curved around the hearth, and a knitted afghan of fluffy tweeded wool in shades of green was flung casually over one arm of the sofa.

Devlin’s Light Mariah Stewart 1997

And as the expensively tweeded figure bore down on me with purposeful strides I knew there was no escape.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992