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cardigan

noun
/ˈkɑːdɪɡən/UK

Etymology

Named after British military commander James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868). For the surname, see Cardigan.

  1. derived from Ceredigion — “Ceredig's land”

Definitions

  1. A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually…

    A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.

    • […] a coarsely knit white cardigan and a black turban whose broadened tails could be arranged around her neck scarfwise.
    • Suzette Sundae, a musician wearing a fifties-style swing dress and a white cardigan over her tattoos, said that she ran a vintage-clothing store in Park Slope. When the store’s traffic fell off, she had Airbnb-ed her home.

  2. A town and community with a town council in Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN1846).

  3. The County of Cardigan, a former synonym of Cardiganshire, Wales.

    • After running through the meadows for about a mile, the train enters the County of Cardigan, and follows the south bank of the Teifi to Cardigan Station.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A community in the town of Three Rivers, Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

    2. A western suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cardigan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cardigan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at cardigan

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA