Crossword clues for cardigan
cardigan
- Sweater named for an English earl
- Knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- Slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail
- General for whom a sweater was named
- Sweater named for a general
- Sweater type
- Garment: gear regularly kept in 15
- Chanteuse originally modelling a daring article of clothing
- Welsh town
- Knitted jumper
- Knitted jacket
- Funny person I scold about clothing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardigan \Car"di*gan\, Cardigan jacket \Car"di*gan jack`et\ [From the Earl of Cardigan, who was famous in the Crimean campaign of 1854-55.] 1. A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves, especially a knitted jacket with sleeves that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper.
Cardigan \Car"di*gan\, a slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.
Syn: Cardigan Welsh corgi.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868, from James Thomas Brudenell (1797-1868), 7th Earl of Cardigan, English general distinguished in the Crimean War, who set the style, in one account supposedly wearing such a jacket while leading the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (1854). The place name is an anglicization of Welsh Ceredigion, literally "Ceredig's land." Ceredig lived 5c.
Wiktionary
n. A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.
WordNet
n. knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail [syn: Cardigan Welsh corgi]
Wikipedia
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A cardigan is a type of knitted garment that has an open front. Commonly cardigans have buttons: a garment that is tied is instead considered a robe. A more modern version of the garment has no buttons and hangs open by design. By contrast, a pullover does not open in front but must be "pulled over" the head to be worn. It may be machine- or hand-knitted.
The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army Major General who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. It is modelled after the knitted wool waistcoat that British officers supposedly wore during the war. The legend of the event and the fame that Lord Cardigan achieved after the war led to the rise of the garment's popularity. The term originally referred only to a knitted sleeveless vest, but expanded to other types of garment over time. Coco Chanel is credited with popularizing cardigans for women because "she hated how tight-necked men’s sweaters messed up her hair when she pulled them over her head." The sweater is mostly associated with the college culture of the Roaring Twenties and early 1930s, being also popular throughout the 1950s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Cardigans have also regained popularity during the present decade.
Plain cardigans are often worn over shirts and inside suit jackets as a less formal version of the waistcoat or vest that restrains the necktie when the jacket has been removed. Its versatility means it can be worn in casual or formal settings and in any season, but it is most popular during cool weather.
Monochromatic cardigans, in sleeved or vest form, may be viewed as a conservative fashion staple. As an item of formal clothing for any gender, it is worn over a button-down dress shirt. A less formal style is a T-shirt underneath.
Cardigan is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.
Cardigan is a lost 1922 silent film Revolutionary War historical drama directed by John W. Noble and starring William Collier, Jr.. It was adapted for the screen by Robert William Chambers from his own 1901 novel Cardigan.
Cardigan may refer to:
In geography:
- Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
- Cardiganshire, a historic county in Wales
- Cardigan, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Cardigan (electoral district), an electoral district in Prince Edward Island
- Mount Cardigan, a mountain in New Hampshire, U.S.
- Cardigan, Victoria, a region in Australia
Other uses:
- Cardigan (sweater)
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Earl of Cardigan, a title in the Peerage of England
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British general during the Crimean War after whom the sweater is named
- The Cardigans, a Swedish pop group
- Cardigan Welsh Corgi, a breed of dog
- SS Cardigan, a British steamship
- Cardigan, a lost 1922 silent film based on novel by Robert W. Chambers
The Cardigan District of Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election. The borough constituency comprised the four towns of Cardigan, Aberystwyth, Lampeter and Adpar - geographically separated from each other but all within the county of Cardiganshire.
The last member to represent the constituency was David Davies from 1874 until 1885. When the county and borough constituencies were merged to form the Cardiganshire seat in 1885, David Davies comfortably won the election. In 1886, however, Davies joined the Liberal Unionists and was narrowly defeated at the General Election that year by the Liberal Party candidate.
Usage examples of "cardigan".
Tommy, her hair bushier than ever, her cardigan suit rumpled, trying to hold her own between two large men.
Besides his connection with the Cambrian, it gives details of his many other activities, including his representation of Cardigan Boroughs in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885, and on the merging of the boroughs into the county, at that date, for Cardiganshire till 1886, when he was defeated on becoming an opponent of Mr.
There was this one in a pink cardigan holding her twenty fags and looking away when she seen me coming.
My choice of clothing reflected my mental state-black pants and an elderly gray turtleneck, topped with my furriest black cardigan.
Given to hanging his hands in the pockets of that nonregulation cardigan, he looked out of place on the tight little bridge.
Maggie dug into the pocket of her cardigan and came out with a computer diskette.
If you go from Tremadoc to Criccaeth, you pass by the parochial church of Ynysynhanarn, situated in a boggy valley running from the mountains, which shoulder up to the Rivals, down to Cardigan Bay.
The two figures were Randy Dickinson, a six-foot-seven giant in riot gear, and Ed Blaine, five-eight in his slippers and cardigan.
She was wearing zip-up furry bootees, three cardigans, an overcoat, a new woolly scarf Genevieve had bought her, and her best hat.
Under the coat she was wearing layers of old clammy cardigans, the stitches sagging, and the same skimpy dress as she had worn days before.
With difficulty, holding her, seating her, he took the ragged clothes away from her, the cardigans and the thin dress, fetid and clinging to her bony body.
It was this sand now that came swirling down the slope, wrapped around chip paper and cigarette butts on a funnel of hot wind, and in the middle of trying to dodge it and not drop their buckets and spades and cardigans, they saw the boy.
He wanted to work at a single project instead of half a dozen, to pick a direction and stick with it, but so far writing had earned him nothing, and the spectre of hitting forty in a ratty cardigan and a damp flat surrounded by thousands of press clippings filled him with depression.
Finally, she slipped on a long white knitted cardigan, and a small navy blue cloche hat.
She sat in a plain admiral's chair behind a polished rose-wood table, wearing a hyacinth cardigan over a peach chambray button-through dress, watching interviews on a big wall-mounted flatscreen.