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a sweater that commits to nothing, hedging warmth with buttons it never quite trusts
means a knitted sweater that fastens up the front, usually with buttons or a zip, worn open or closed as the mood demands
from Named after James Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, the British cavalry officer who led the doomed Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War. His soldiers reportedly wore knitted waistcoats against the bitter cold, and the buttoned garment took on his title. The earldom itself comes from Cardigan, a town in Wales — so the sweater carries a Welsh place-name by way of a battlefield blunder.
- named after
- a British earl who led a doomed cavalry charge
- crimean war
- soldiers wore them in brutal 1850s winters
- swift hit
- a 2020 song made it a number-one word
- mister rogers
- his mother knit every cardigan he wore
cardigan bay — body of water off the coast of wales, known for its bottlenose dolphins and seabird colonies
cardigan castle — 12th-century norman castle in cardigan, wales, site of the first national eisteddfod in 1176