cashmeren.
/ˈkaʃmɪə/, /kaʃˈmɪə/, U.S. /ˈkæʒmɪ(ə)r/, /ˈkæʃmɪ(ə)r/ (a) More fully cashmere shawl: a costly shawl made of fine soft wool obtained from the Cashmere goat and the wild goat of western China. (b) The material of which cashmere shawls are made. (c) A woollen fabric made in France and England in imitation of cashmere.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > made in imitation of other fabrics
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > thin or fine
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1822 J. W. Croker Diary 11 Jan. She..and Lady Eliz. were dressed in rich cashmeres..the wide borders of the shawls making the flounce of the gown.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxvi. 226 If you could bring me a Cachemire shawl, it would give me great pleasure... Perhaps you could get my old friend, Madame De——, to choose the Cachemire.
1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 65 In yellow folds voluminous she wore her long cachemere.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 9 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 35/1 Kashmir (a substitute for flannel).
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