Camel cousin of the Andes

Usage examples of alpaca.

She spent the rest of the afternoon in trying to decide between a black alpaca and a green cashmere dress.

The station agent, in green eyeshade and black alpaca worksleeves, leaned through the ticket window, talking to a friend.

Mrs Ross swung round so quickly that the skirt of her grey alpaca dress formed itself for a moment into a bell and it looked to Tilly as if she were about to run down the steps and across the lawn.

There was a murmur from inside the room, and presently a woman of medium height wearing a grey alpaca dress, the bodice of which seemed moulded to her thin body, stood confronting the footman, who had now taken a step back into the corridor.

In his hurry, he overlooked his new alpaca overcoat, which was hanging on a wallhook behind his back.

Still forgetful of his new alpaca overcoat, the commissioner strode from the grill room by the usual door, expecting Cardona to follow, which Joe did, with a grin.

Staid club members stared when they saw Weston stride by, huddling a wrapped package under the fancy alpaca coat that he was wearing.

While Weston was studying the lights in the grill room, Cranston took the alpaca coat and hung it on the rack in a dark corner.

Hembroke saw a stoopish man wearing an alpaca coat and kid gloves, whose eyes were owlish in round glasses that magnified their size.

He supposed that another, a stoopish man who wore dark glasses and an alpaca coat and who was leaning upon a stout cane, might be the owner of the warehouse itself.

The alpaca coat was thrown back to reveal a thinnish figure, far too small in proportion to the great head that topped its scrawny shoulders.

When she was attired in a grey alpaca dress with a cape to match, a blue straw bonnet resting on her brown hair, and a pair of black buttoned boots on her feet, she went to the top drawer of the chest and took out the long envelope and looked at it.

He stuck his hands in his alpaca pockets and leaned back against the railing.

Near the front of the audience, a youngish man in an alpaca cardigan and hopsack slacks sprang to his feet.

Why should they think such things, when they had always had around them four-legged beasts of burden such as llamas and alpacas and vicunas, unless they had been encouraged and inflamed to think differently?