cashmere

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  1. noun Fine, downy wool growing beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.
  2. noun A soft fabric made of this wool or of similar fibers.

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  1. After Kashmir .

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  1. Also written cachemere (and with altered form and sense casimire, cassimere, kerseymere, q. v.); = French cachemire = Dutch kashemire = German Kaschmir (-schawls) = Danish kasimir = Turk, qāzmīr, cashmere, so called because first made in Cashmere (French Cachemire, German Kaschmir), now commonly written Kashmir, representing Kashmīr, the native name (Sanskrit Kaçmīra), a state and valley in the Himalaya mountains north of the Panjab.
 

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