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Fair Isle
- a banded geometrical pattern knitted into garments using variously colored woolen yarns.
- clothing featuring such a pattern, especially sweaters.
Fair Isle
noun
- an intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool into various garments, such as sweaters
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Fair Isle1
After Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands where the knitting pattern originated
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Fair Isle1
C19: named after one of the Shetland Islands where the pattern originated
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Example Sentences
There is the girl with the tie-dyed purse and the woven Fair Isle flats (so Urban Outfitters).
From The Daily Beast
IN the fair isle of Cyprus, long ago, lived a young sculptor named Pygmalion.
From Project Gutenberg
Fair Isle is a lonely island midway between the Orkney and Shetland islands.
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On the third day after leaving the Orkneys we sighted Fair Isle, looming faintly through a mist of snow, far to starboard.
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On Fair Isle, one of the Shetland group, the art is first said to have been discovered, very many years ago.
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It would seem as if the Fair Isle had some attraction for “persons of quality.”
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