Crossword clues for cashmere
cashmere
- Fabric ruined? Search me!
- Fabric in green, pure and simple
- Just after money for expensive fabric
- Sweater material
- Soft fabric
- Soft wool
- Type of wool
- Soft woollen fabric
- Sweater material choice
- Payoff from a fleecing
- Fine yarn
- Fine sweater material
- Soft wool — search me (anag)
- Soft sweater stuff
- Soft fabric made from goats' hair
- See charm (anag)
- Pashmina alternative
- Cold weather wear
- Sweater choice
- A soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
- The wool of the Kashmir goat
- An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
- Fine wool
- Money unimportant for 9
- Money only for material
- Money just for wool
- Money gets plain wool
- Check when cutting that sheer material
- A schemer alters this material
- Soft wool - search me
- Search me, roughly, for woollen material
- Search me roughly for fine material
- Fine soft wool
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas.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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A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere; -- often called camel's-hair shawl.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly uncountable English) fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat. 2 (context chiefly uncountable English) A soft fabric made of this wool.
WordNet
n. a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
the wool of the Kashmir goat
an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India [syn: Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1174
Land area (2000): 0.892518 sq. miles (2.311611 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017558 sq. miles (0.045475 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.910076 sq. miles (2.357086 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10495
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.519515 N, 120.468967 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98815
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cashmere
Wikipedia
Cashmere may refer to:
- Cashmere wool from the Cashmere goat
- Cashmere (painting), a painting by John Singer Sargent
- Cashmere (band), a post-disco and soul music group
- Magnus August Høiberg, an electronic music producer known as Cashmere Cat
- Cashmere, a minor character in The Hunger Games
Cashmere were an American music group best known for their boogie and soul hits, including "Can I" and "Do It Any Way You Wanna".
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?".
Cashmere (French: cachemire) is an oil on canvas painting by an American artist and the leading portrait painter John Singer Sargent. It was completed in c.1908 and is based on Realism style by use of painting genre. The dimensions of the painting is 71.1 by 109.2 centimeters and is housed in a private collection.
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.