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American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The soft fine hair of the camel or a substitute for it.
  2. n. A soft, heavy, usually light tan cloth, made chiefly of the hair of camel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The soft hair of a camel.
  2. n. A substitute for this hair.
  3. n. A soft fabric made from this hair.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel

Examples

  • “Stan Sesser/The Wall Street Journal The Mongolian camel driver-guide Enkhtuya, left, owns 30 camels, used for tourism and the fur that goes into camelhair coats.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Camel-Trekking Across the Gobi

  • “He owns 30 camels, used for tourism and the fur that goes into camelhair coats.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Dunes Struck

  • “We ' re left to guess, for instance, what it means that a man has his camelhair jacket shoggling over the cantle of the saddle.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Southwestern Gothic

  • “The young fellow was cheaply dressed—no camelhair and cashmere here.”

    Simon & Schuster: TOO MANY MURDERS

  • “Smith was clad in camelhair trousers, a fawn silk shirt and a fawn cashmere sweater: what the lord of the manor wears when he is at home, Carmine thought.”

    Simon & Schuster: TOO MANY MURDERS

  • “He saw the old theater where Degotti had taught him how to use a camelhair brush and to paint from both memory and sight.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

  • “Louis wheeled around, took a camelhair brush from a copper pan of orange paint, and dashed a heart on the back of her hand.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

  • “He wore an exquisitely tailored camelhair coat, with a green silk scarf around his neck.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Dollar Short

  • “Maggie left the room yesterday afternoon, Pamela said, and came back looking great after her hairstyling and manicure, carrying a camelhair coat, black heels, and some clothes in a garment bag.”

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

  • “He wore a hat and an unbuttoned camelhair coat over an elegant black suit that fit him far too well to be anything but tailor-made.”

    The Sinister Six Combo

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