mohair

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It being made of mohair, the shawl is super duper soft.

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  1. noun The long silky hair of the Angora goat.
  2. noun Fabric made with yarn from this hair.

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  • The term might of course be stretched to cover the liquorice bootlaces, a sweet now extinct in many parts of England and concocted by Mrs. Bisset from a family recipe, but it could not apply to the mohair or leather varieties which hung from hooks on either side of the entrance. —  Eternity Ring - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 13: 1948
  • He added his own, a straw hat which his wife had made him buy at the same time as the mohair jacket, and in which he felt slightly foolish. —  Maigret in Vichy - Georges Simenon - 95
  • The bar is mobbed, white boys with dreadlocks, black girls wearing Nirvana T-shirts, grungy homeboys, gym queens with buzz cuts, mohair, neon, Janice Dickerson, bodyguards and their models from the shows today looking hot but exhausted, fleece and neoprene and pigtails and silicone and Brent Fraser as well as Brendan Fraser and pom-poms and chenille sleeves and falconer gloves and everyone's smoochy. —  Glamorama
  • Black 100\% wool mohair, herringbone, leather trim, 100\% silk charmeuse lining. —  Second City Style Fashion Blog - Style, Luxury, Beauty & Shopping
  • He used mohair, crepe, tweed and organza to recreate a lost world of Manhattan elegance, with period details like exposed zippers, high collars, hooped hems and exposed panels used as well.
 

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  1. Alteration (influenced by hair) of obsolete Italian mocaiaro, from Arabic muḫayyar, choice, select, mohair, passive participle of ḫayyara, to prefer, derived stem of ḫāra, to choose; see ḫyr in Semitic roots.

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  1. Formerly also mockaire; from Old French mouhaire, mouaire, mohere, French moire (later English moire, G. mohr, moire = Provencal moira = Spanish moare, muér, mué = Portuguese morim = Italian moerro), mohair; cf. Italian mocajardo, haircloth; prob. from Arabic mukhayyar, a fabric of goat's hair, a kind of camlet.
 

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/ˈmoʊhɛr/
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