单词 | mohair |
释义 | mohair From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Clothes & fashionmohairmo‧hair /ˈməʊheə $ ˈmoʊher/ noun [uncountable]TIDCexpensive wool made from the hair of the angora goat a mohair sweaterExamples from the Corpusmohair• Underneath the coat was a mohair suit the same colour as mine.• In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres, principally wool and mohair.• Wind whistled through my black mohair.• I looked along the black mohair to my socks.• She dressed in an unvarying uniform of black ski pants and pink mohair pullover which became grubbier as the weeks passed.• Alida Thorne wore her best suit, a straight-skirted mohair tweed in jewel green.• There's a ready sale for the mohair and fleeces.Origin mohair (1600-1700) mocayare “mohair” ((1500-1600)), from early Italian mocaiarro, from Arabic mukhayyar “choice”; influenced by hair |
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