Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The soft fine hair of the camel or a substitute for it.
- noun A soft, heavy, usually light tan cloth, made chiefly of the hair of the camel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The soft
hair of acamel . - noun A
substitute for this hair. - noun A soft
fabric made from this hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel
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Examples
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He owns 30 camels, used for tourism and the fur that goes into camelhair coats.
Dunes Struck 2011
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Stan Sesser/The Wall Street Journal The Mongolian camel driver-guide Enkhtuya, left, owns 30 camels, used for tourism and the fur that goes into camelhair coats.
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We ' re left to guess, for instance, what it means that a man has his camelhair jacket shoggling over the cantle of the saddle.
Southwestern Gothic Sam Sacks 2010
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The young fellow was cheaply dressed—no camelhair and cashmere here.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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Smith was clad in camelhair trousers, a fawn silk shirt and a fawn cashmere sweater: what the lord of the manor wears when he is at home, Carmine thought.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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He saw the old theater where Degotti had taught him how to use a camelhair brush and to paint from both memory and sight.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Louis wheeled around, took a camelhair brush from a copper pan of orange paint, and dashed a heart on the back of her hand.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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He saw the old theater where Degotti had taught him how to use a camelhair brush and to paint from both memory and sight.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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He saw the old theater where Degotti had taught him how to use a camelhair brush and to paint from both memory and sight.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Louis wheeled around, took a camelhair brush from a copper pan of orange paint, and dashed a heart on the back of her hand.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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