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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
camelhair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley's and passes into the former.
▪ Women's camelhair coats down from £749 to £395, botany knitwear down from £79 to £49.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
camelhair

camelhair \cam"el*hair\ n. a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel.

Syn: camel's hair.

Wiktionary
camelhair

alt. 1 The soft hair of a camel. 2 A substitute for this hair. 3 A soft fabric made from this hair. n. 1 The soft hair of a camel. 2 A substitute for this hair. 3 A soft fabric made from this hair.

WordNet
camelhair

n. a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel [syn: camel's hair]

Usage examples of "camelhair".

The other was dressed like them in a white, girdled khalat and a flowing head-dress which, banded about the temples with a triple circlet of braided camelhair, fell to his shoulders.

To ascertain whether the valves were endowed with irritability, the surfaces of several were scratched with a needle or brushed with a fine camelhair brush, so as to imitate the crawling movement of small crustaceans, but the valve did not open.

She had long, dark hair and was dressed in a tasteful black skirt and white blouse, covered by a camelhair coat.

The central glands of a leaf were irritated with a small stiff camelhair brush, and in 70 m.

A girl from the Brookline Young People's Group over in a cheerleader skirt and slut-stockings is ignoring all the ashtrays and putting her extra-long gasper out on the bare tabletop two rows over as she laughs like a seal at something an acne'd guy in a long camelhair car coat he hasn't taken off and sockless leather dance-shoes Gately's never seen at a meeting before says.

And he kissed her lightly on the cheek, hoisted his trilby hat onto his head, shrugged on his camelhair coat, tucked his case beneath his arm, picked up his umbrella and departed.