harris tweed

1. 1.

   a loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides

   Broadertweed

   trademark

Questions about harris tweed

What does harris tweed mean?

harris tweed means "a loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides".

Is harris tweed a common word?

harris tweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.