Fair Isle

Fair Isle

1.
a banded geometrical pattern knitted into garments using variously colored woolen yarns.
2.
clothing featuring such a pattern, especially sweaters.

Origin:
after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands where the knitting pattern originated
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Fair Isle is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Fair Isle
 
n
an intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool into various garments, such as sweaters
 
[C19: named after one of the Shetland Islands where the pattern originated]

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