twinset

twin +‎ set

twinset (plural twinsets)

1. A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere
   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     She was dressed to receive, as her mother would have said, and she had been standing at the window in her blue twinset for an hour, waiting for the car, waiting for the doorbell, waiting for the soft turn of her husband's key in the latch.

   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts

     I need these people, the Sergeant, and Mr. Tighe the shopman in the village, even Miss Broaders, she of the pink twinsets and tight mouth, who presides over the post office.

• Winsett, Wittens, entwist, twinest