camel's-hair

The novel's personification of all that crime is a tall, powerfully built thief whom Sammler sees several times working the Riverside Drive bus, a dandified black man sporting a camel's-hair coat, homburg, and Dior sunglasses.

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

A black strapless satin and wool cocktail dress topped with a camel's-hair cocoon coat, by Carmen Marc Valvo The notion of seasonless dressing has been percolating in the fashion industry in recent seasons and some retailers and mainstream apparel companies have started paying more attention to the weather.

The All-Weather Wardrobe 2008

The young man, in other words, subscribes to the philosophy of the thief in the camel's-hair coat: all authority resides in the genitals, beside which Sammler's wide erudition and the Western culture over which he ranges so widely throughout the novel count as nothing.

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

Holding him against the wall with his forearm, speaking "no more than a puma would," the robber calmly unbuttons his camel's-hair coat, opens his fly, and displays to Sammler his penis, "a large tan-and-purple uncircumcised thing" like a snake or an elephant's trunk, along with his "great oval testicles."

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008

Equipped with canvas, oils and camel's-hair brushes, he parked himself behind an easel and in front of the landscape and commenced to smoke cigars, drink champagne and paint.

The Art of Politics 2008

And now in the doorway the man himself appeared, natty in a long camel's-hair coat, his carefully trimmed hair impeccable as always.

Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

I sprinkle it over the faint markings, so, and then I brush it off with a camel's-hair brush lightly.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

He was impressive with his high-coloured, beaky face and camel's-hair coat, and his face wore an expression of grim confidence.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

But elephants do not build colossal temples of ivory even in a roccoco style; camels do not paint even bad pictures, though equipped with the material of many camel's-hair brushes.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

Within, the camel's-hair fabric enclosed a measure of warmth.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989