Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Fine, downy wool growing beneath the outer hair of feral Himalayan goats.
- n. A soft fabric made of this wool.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as Pushmina.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). (Wiktionary)
- Persian pashmīne, woolen garment, pashmina, from pashmīn, made of wool, from pashm, wool, down. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I checked out the scarf and saw that, according to the label, it was called a pashmina.”
“Unless your pashmina is from the best-quality Nepalese source, the answer is no.”
“If a pashmina is a kind of scarf, then maybe we do have them up north as well.”
“Last of all, my best piece of packing advice is to bring a pashmina: There is simply no end to the number of ways a pashmina is your best friend when traveling.”
“* The $5 pashmina man, who I bought a lovely red "pashmina" from on Wednesday that so nicely matches my dollar store hat.”
“The "pashmina" scarves were really pashmina wool and silk, a blend that is less expensive than pure pashmina.”
“Ms. Callaway told The Transom that the picture ended up in the paper by mistake when she typed "pashmina" into the tabloid's computer system, and the program pulled up Ms. Rivers 'photo.”
“AGRA JAIL CARPETS: These carpets are made of the finest wools, velvets, silks and sometimes even pashmina which is considered to be one of the most exotic fibres for weaving shawls for making these carpets with natural dyes and take a few hundred weavers upto 15 years to make a single carpet.”
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“Mom had a pashmina draped over one arm, and Dad was still wearing his suit.”
“I asked my assistant to search pashmina and see what she could find out.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pashmina’.
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Fads
With bows of great respect to Connie Willis, author of "Bellwether" and other wonderful books.
Hula-Hoop, bungee-jumping, hair-bobbing, pogs, jitterbug, jogging, mesmerism, Ouija board, miniature golf, The Old Curiosity..., Harry Potter, line dancing and 271 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Fibers & Fabrics
zibeline, havelock, pashmina, qiviut, sartorial, noil, balbriggan, fichu, bombazine, cambric, placket, gabardine and 28 more...
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Cashmere
cashmere, puttoo, cashmere shawl, camel's-hair shawl, ulwan, India shawl, Cashgar cloth, shawl-goat, Cashmere goat, cachemire, cashmerette, mourning-stuff and 18 more...
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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Awesome
Awesome words
mimsy, concupiscence, tumescent, ophidian, houri, vorpal, cyprian, Delphic, incipient, effete, existential, loam and 289 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Dress Me Up, But Don't Dress Me Down
muslin, hennin, houndstooth, moccasin, paisley, aglet, stomacker, poncho, sarong, kilt, middy, camisole and 25 more...
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PETA Hates This List
Stuff made by or from animals, which we don't eat but is still useful.
leather, ivory, pearl, ambergris, coral, musk, lanolin, wool, horsehair, mohair, pashmina, fur and 15 more...
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