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Rabbit breed that's a source of wool
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angora
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Word definitions for angora in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.