Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cardigan

Cardigan (#)

[From the Earl of Cardigan, who was famous in the Crimean campaign of 1854-55.]

1.
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.

Also: Cardigan jacket

Cardigan (#)

a slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.