Crossword clues for angora
angora
- Silky wool
- Silky sweater
- Mohair-providing goat
- Goat wool
- Goat with silky hair
- Goat with long, silky hair
- Fine sweater material
- Fine fleece
- Exotic cat
- Cat, goat, or rabbit
- Wool-producing rabbit
- Wool from a rabbit
- Variety of domestic cat
- Type of rabbit or goat
- Type of goat or cat
- Type of fluffy wool
- Type of cat, goat or rabbit
- Turkish tabby
- Soft fluffy wool
- Silky-haired goat
- Relative of cashmere
- Rabbit breed that's a source of wool
- Rabbit breed that requires regular grooming
- Mohair-yielding goat
- Mohair-producing goat
- Mohair-bearing goat
- Mohair goat
- Mohair bearer
- Longhaired domestic cat
- Longhaired cat
- Longhaired breed of rabbit
- Longhaired breed of cat, rabbit or goat
- Longhair cat
- Long-haired rabbit type
- Long-haired domestic cat
- Long haired bunny
- Kind of goat that's the source of mohair
- Goat with mohair
- Goat with a fuzzy coat
- Goat that produces mohair
- Goat producing mohair
- Goat or rabbit
- Goat hair made into wool
- Goat hair
- Fur of rabbit — hair of goat
- Fluffy wool
- Fluffy feline
- Fabric that's one letter off from a country
- Fabric named for a world capital
- Certain rabbit hair
- Certain longhair
- Catwoman's favorite sweater type?
- Cat, rabbit or goat
- Cat with long, silky hair
- Cat or goat breed
- (Cloth from hair of) goat
- Silky-haired cat
- Sweater material
- Goat breed
- Silky goat or rabbit
- Goat type
- Wool source
- Smooth yarn
- Wool type
- Kind of goat or rabbit
- Silky-coated cat
- Source of mohair
- Some wool
- Soft wool source
- Breed of cat, goat or rabbit
- Raised for its long silky hair which is the true mohair
- Domestic breed with long white silky hair
- A long-haired breed similar to the Persian cat
- Cat, goat or rabbit
- Mohair source
- Goat or rabbit wool
- Soft sweater wool
- Kind of cat or sweater
- Woolen fabric
- Kind of sweater
- Kind of wool
- Cat variety
- Good source of mohair
- Sweater wool
- Cashmere's kin
- Cat or wool
- An anthropoid ape abandoning sick goat
- Cat’s energy captured by an artist
- Soft yarn from certain goats
- Soft silky yarn
- Yarn from an artist about travel
- Long-haired Turkish cat or rabbit
- Long-haired cat, goat, or rabbit
- Breed of goat or rabbit
- Hair fabric
- Type of cat or rabbit
- Kind of cat, goat or rabbit
- Fine fabric
- Fine wool
- Sweater type
- Sweater yarn
- Silky-haired rabbit
- Type of wool
- Wool variety
- Breed of cat or rabbit
- Mohair-coated goat
- Fur-bearing goat
- Turkish _____
- Kind of rabbit or goat
- Cat or goat type
- Variety of cat or goat
- Turkish _______
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angora \An*go"ra\ ([a^]n*g[=o]"r[.a]), n. A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Angora cat (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat.
Angora goat (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of wool, 1810, from Angora, city in central Turkey (ancient Ancyra, modern Ankara), which gave its name to the goat (1745 in English), and to its silk-like wool, and to a cat whose fur resembles it (1771 in English). The city name is from the Greek word for "anchor, bend" (see angle (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An angora cat. 2 An angora goat. 3 An angora rabbit. 4 (context uncountable English) The hair of angora rabbits or angora goats, used to make textiles. 5 (context uncountable English) The fabric made from the hair of angora rabbits or angora goats.
Wikipedia
Angora may refer to:
Angora were a band featuring lead vocalist and harmonica player John Corabi, guitarist Jimmy Marchiano, bassist Frank Schmeca, and drummer Robert Iezza.
The band recorded a demo tape before the members went on to other bands.
John Corabi went on to form Saints Or Sinners, which later changed their name to The Scream, with former Racer X members guitarist Bruce Bouillet, bassist John Alderete, and drummer Scott Travis. However, Scott Travis soon left Saints Or Sinners to join Judas Priest and was replaced by former Shark Island drummer Walt Woodward III.
Frank Schmeca and Robert Iezza went on to form The Graveyard Train with lead vocalist Todd Griffin and guitarist Bruce Draper. Jimmy Marchiano is currently a guitarist for the popular Led Zeppelin tribute band, "Get the Led Out".
After The Scream, John Corabi temporarily replaced Vince Neil in Mötley Crüe.
Usage examples of "angora".
On some empty Iranian or Baluchi beach, they would rendezvous at dawn with the receivers, off-load their cargo of cheap cigarettes and take on board, surprisingly angora goats so valued in Oman.
Bay she has fifteen cats, mostly Angoras, Persians, and coons, with several dogs.
Under her windbreaker, he saw, she was wearing a gaudy blue angora sweater, still sparkling frothily with snow.
Angora, Timour gave Donald command of the Kalmucks, who accompanied their kin back into high Asia, and a swarm of restless, turbulent Vigurs.
The Pretty Lady was evidently of Angora or coon descent, as her fur was always longer and silkier than that of ordinary cats.
At her feet, Princess Nathalie, the white Angora cat, sleek, over-fed, self-centred, sat on her haunches, industriously licking at the white fur of her breast, while near at hand, by the railing of the porch, Presley pottered with a new bicycle lamp, filling it with oil, adjusting the wicks.
July 6, 1995qjcf1 Someone shot the Hobarts' pet Angora cat last night.
Remember that you have in your English home seventy-four fine cats, mostly Angoras.
Comrade Jackson's stud of Angoras is celebrated wherever the King's English is spoken, and in Hoxton.
By the way, I think it would be a graceful act if you were to write to Comrade Jarvis from time to time telling him how your Angoras are getting on.
I raise dairy goats now, but someday I'd like to have some Angoras and spin their hair and weave it.
And the Gruder estates pastured ten thousand head of pedigreed Angoras.
Soon the reservoir was teeming with cats: alley cats, Siamese cats, Angora cats, Persian cats, black cats and gray cats and white cats and yellow cats, striped cats, spotted cats, old cats and kittens.
She wore a green sweater of tight-fitting angora wool, and a tartan skirt which left her smooth tanned calves bare.
Her office was all in white as well: the dainty Louis-Something-or-Other furniture was bleached white, the carpeting looked like softly tufted white angora wool, the walls and ceiling were white cream.