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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mohair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alida Thorne wore her best suit, a straight-skirted mohair tweed in jewel green.
▪ I looked along the black mohair to my socks.
▪ In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres, principally wool and mohair.
▪ She dressed in an unvarying uniform of black ski pants and pink mohair pullover which became grubbier as the weeks passed.
▪ There's a ready sale for the mohair and fleeces.
▪ Underneath the coat was a mohair suit the same colour as mine.
▪ Wind whistled through my black mohair.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mohair

Mohair \Mo"hair`\, n. [F. moire, perh. from Ar. mukhayyar a kind of coarse camelot or haircloth; but prob. fr. L. marmoreus of marble, resembling marble. Cf. Moire, Marble.] The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mohair

1610s, earlier mocayre, 1560s, "fine hair of the Angora goat," also "a fabric made from this," from Middle French mocayart (16c.), Italian mocaiarro, both from Arabic mukhayyar "cloth of goat hair," literally "selected, choice," from khayyara "he chose." Spelling influenced in English by association with hair. Moire "watered silk" (1650s) probably represents English mohair borrowed into French and back into English.

Wiktionary
mohair

n. 1 yarn or fabric made from the hair of the angora goat, often as mixed with cotton or other materials. 2 The long, fine hair of the Angora goat.

WordNet
mohair

n. fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat

Wikipedia
Mohair

Mohair is usually a silk-like fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat. Both durable and resilient, mohair is notable for its high luster and sheen, which has helped give it the nickname the "Diamond Fiber", and is often used in fiber blends to add these qualities to a textile. Mohair takes dye exceptionally well. Mohair is warm in winter as it has excellent insulating properties, while remaining cool in summer due to its moisture wicking properties. It is durable, naturally elastic, flame resistant and crease resistant. It is considered to be a luxury fiber, like cashmere, angora and silk, and is usually more expensive than most wool that comes from sheep.

Mohair is composed mostly of keratin, a protein found in the hair, wool, horns and skin of all mammals. While it has scales like wool, the scales are not fully developed, merely indicated. Thus, mohair does not felt as wool does.

Mohair fiber is approximately 25–45 microns in diameter. It increases in diameter with the age of the goat, growing along with the animal. Fine hair from younger animals is used for finer applications such as clothing, and the thicker hair from older animals is more often used for carpets and heavy fabrics intended for outerwear.

The term mohair is sometimes used to describe a type of material used for the folding roof on convertible cars. In this instance, mohair refers to a form of denim-like canvas. Mohair should not be confused with the fur from the angora rabbit, which is called angora wool.

Mohair (disambiguation)

Mohair may refer to:

  • Mohair, fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat
  • Mohair (band), a British rock band active 1998–2007
Mohair (band)

Mohair were a British rock band from Watford, England, that formed in 1998.

Usage examples of "mohair".

She wraps her in the mohair blanket and Nalia cannot help it-- she cannot help the warmth around her body, the softness.

I watch him draw the sheet back up, right over her head, and then take her mohair blanket and cover the mirror with it.

Farquhar Fenelon Cooke in an ecstasy of enjoyment, driving over and laying out Mohair, and I must admit he evinced a surprising genius in his planning, although, according to Farrar, he broke every sacred precept of landscape gardening again and again.

Cooke and the guests he was likely to have at Mohair were looked upon.

Cooke line in the matter of household decoration, unless it was that he considered Mohair his own, private hobby, and that she humored him.

Except to visit the boathouses I had not been to Mohair since the day of its completion, and now the full beauty of the approach struck me for the first time.

The Celebrity did not stint his praises of Mohair, coming up the drive, but so lavish were his comments on the house that they won for him a lasting place in Mr.

The Celebrity deemed her, from a social standpoint, decidedly the better part of the Mohair establishment, and he contrived, by a system of manoeuvres I failed to grasp, to throw her forward while he kept Mr.

Cookes, in reality a prejudice against the world, the flesh, and the devil, natural to any quiet community, and of which Mohair and its appurtenances were taken as the outward and visible signs.

Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr.

Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

I was settling down delightedly to my old, easy, and unmolested existence when Farrar and I received an invitation, which amounted to a summons, to go to Mohair and make ourselves generally useful.

He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.

CHAPTER VI As an endeavor to unite Mohair and Asquith the cotillon had proved a dismal failure.