Fair Isle


  1. a banded geometrical pattern knitted into garments using variously colored woolen yarns.

  2. clothing featuring such a pattern, especially sweaters.

Origin of Fair Isle

1
After Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands where the knitting pattern originated

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How to use Fair Isle in a sentence

  • It would seem as if the Fair Isle had some attraction for “persons of quality.”

    Across the Plains | Robert Louis Stevenson

British Dictionary definitions for Fair Isle

Fair Isle

noun
  1. an intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool into various garments, such as sweaters

Origin of Fair Isle

1
C19: named after one of the Shetland Islands where the pattern originated

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