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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  • They wore long coats, cashmere, the Emperor thought, but he couldn't for the life of him remember why he might know that. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • Her shawl was cashmere, after all, and exercise was known to aid circulation. —  Chase, Loretta - Knave's Wager
  • One of her go-to looks is jeans and a men's-style shirt, made feminine with accessories such as a cocktail ring or a cashmere shawl. —  Forbes.com: News
  • Anyone buying this cashmere-and-wool-mix top must have wept when it came out of the machine. —  Home | Mail Online
  • Alright, one man's cashmere is another man's acrylic, but let's not split hairs, we all know there really isn't that much cashmere in the world. —  Retail Design Diva
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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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