Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A knitted garment, such as a sweater or jacket, that opens down the full length of the front.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A close-fitting knitted woolen jacket or waistcoat. Also called
cardigan jacket .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
sweater orjumper that fastens up the front withbuttons or azipper , usually machine- or hand-knitted fromwool .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- noun slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I just met what I call cardigan and bri nylon attitudes, 30 years out of date.
WAG FAILS ON THE ECONOMY AGAIN Dylan Jones-Evans 2009
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He in cardigan and tie, she in sleeveless, pleated dress, they evoked not Al and Peggy Bundy but Rob and Laura Petrie.
'Dancing with the Stars' Week 5: We watch so you don't have to Lisa de Moraes 2010
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The cardigan is perfect for tiredness and cider-on-Sunday.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jean 2009
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The cardigan is adorable, and it's nice that we saw the recipient in the wedding photos.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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The cardigan is perfect for tiredness and cider-on-Sunday.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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She was looking up steadily into the October sky, holding her thin cardigan stretched over her fast at the neck with both hands.
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Why can a vest be both button and un -, while a cardigan is subject to such a narrow definition?
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I am of the opinion that a cardigan is by definition a button-front sleeved garment – vests rather unfairly can lay claim to anything without sleeves.
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The outer layer is usually referred to as a cardigan, for its traditional button-front design, whereas the under-layer can be anything from a cap-sleeve T-shirt silhouette to a tank top.
The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010
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The outer layer is usually referred to as a cardigan, for its traditional button-front design, whereas the under-layer can be anything from a cap-sleeve T-shirt silhouette to a tank top.
The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010
sionnach commented on the word cardigan
Some Crimean war trivia:
Cardigan led the charge of the light brigade; Scarlett led the charge of the heavy brigade. The charge of the light brigade was immortalized in Tennyson’s 1854 poem of that name: the link light brigade has a recording of Tennyson himself reading the poem.
It is less widely known that Tennyson also wrote a poem to honor the (successful) charge of the heavy brigade. For a text version of the second poem, see, e.g. heavy brigade
December 19, 2007