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Definition of Cardigan
1. Noun. Knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper.
2. Noun. Slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.
Definition of Cardigan
1. Proper noun. A town in Wales. ¹
2. Noun. A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cardigan
1. a type of sweater [n -S] - See also: sweater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardigan
Literary usage of Cardigan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"Advance of Lord cardigan remember. On the near side before, as well as on the
near side behind, the horse had one white leg.* In the small group which ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"As Lord cardigan he was not more successful in getting on with his ... cardigan
ordered a certain Captain Reynolds under arrest for a trifling reason, ..."
3. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"(The name is an allusion to Gen. xxiv. 60.) 145 M. Whitland (Yelverton Arms) is
the junction of lines to Tenby and Pembroke (see R. 29) and to cardigan. ..."
4. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters ... Also by Alaric Alexander Watts (1856)
"Fur thia conversation Lord cardigan summoned Rey- nolds into his presence,
upbraided him, ... Lord Hill, Commander-in all that Lord cardigan had done, ..."
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