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cashmere
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Word definitions for cashmere in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cashmere \Cash"mere\, n. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans. ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cashmere is the second album of the band with the same name , released in 1985 by Philly World Records (and distributed by Atlantic Records ). This album also includes their previous 1984 hit "Can I?".
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "shawl made of cashmere wool," from the old spelling of Kashmir , Himalayan kingdom where wool was obtained from long-haired goats. As a name for this kind of woolen fabric, favored for shawls, etc., it is attested from 1822.
Usage examples of cashmere.
She spent the rest of the afternoon in trying to decide between a black alpaca and a green cashmere dress.
He was even larger than the last time Bryson had seen him, though his avoirdupois was elegantly sheathed in a suit of navy cashmere, his bull neck flattered by the spread collar of one of his Turnbull happened.
At the end of about an hour he heard a rustling, peeped out quickly, and caught sight of Boule de Suif, looking more rotund than ever in a dressing-gown of blue cashmere trimmed with white lace.
The footman helped her into the curricle and tucked a thick, cushiony cashmere robe around her.
Is it the Himalayas sheer, The rocks and valleys of Cashmere, Or Indus as she seeks the south From Attoch to the fivefold mouth?
She placed my hand on the electrical cashmere of her lap and I felt my dick give a sick and fuddled lurch.
Disco-remixed easy listening on the sound system, two people working, both in black: a blond girl with bored eyes behind the register and Neese folding cashmere sweaters.
To name only a few, there are the Sambur, the beautiful Axis Deer, the small, but fierce, Hog Deer, the Rusa Deer, the Bahrainga Deer, and the noble Cashmere Deer.
When I left home I was wrapped in a quilted down-filled coat, cashmere Burberry scarf, fleece-lined boots, and heavy-duty shearling mittens.
Soon all three cashmeres were standing around the skank, and the whisper party had begun.
All four girls, the three cashmeres and the skank, were now facing the entrance.
The exchange is not between a hundred weight of unmanufactured iron, and a hundred weight of watch-springs, nor between a pound of wool just shorn, and a pound of wool just manufactured into cashmere, but between a fixed value in one of these articles, and a fixed equal value in another.
She was restlessly ranging there, with her pacing step, her legs bent at the knee-joints, wrapped in a black cashmere shawl, a black veil wound about her disordered silver hair and tied under her chin, her ageing face, with the large writhen mouth, gleaming dead-white against her mourning.
Judging by his outfit - a soft brown leather blouson over a toffee-coloured cashmere crew neck and a pair of Levi 501s, he was doing his damnedest to ignore the fast approaching fortieth birthday.
She dressed in dark jeans and a matching cashmere turtleneck, then added a long, buttonless cardigan in the same ebony color.