1. tweed - Noun
2. Tweed - Proper noun
A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.
Source: Webster's dictionaryConfession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Peter De Vries
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. Hermione Gingold
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. Alan Bennett
He introduced me to all the intellectuals at S. F. State and convinced me I should be a writer since I had so many fucking stories to tell. Little did he know I was scared shitless of all those guys with the tweed coats and fancy pipes. Oscar Zeta Acosta
My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses. Stephen Fry
Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair Who glory to have thrown in air, High over arm, the trembling reed, By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed. Robert Louis Stevenson