Cashmerian
Kashmir.
Historical Examples
The Maharajah has ordered specimens of every kind of cashmerian product to be got ready without delay.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II Various
We took the opportunity to speak to the Regent and the cashmerian governor, of the geographical knowledge of the Europeans.
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China Evariste Regis Huc
You wear a cashmerian shawl: you are become a person of substance.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
Began after breakfast for the first time with a moonshi, a cashmerian Brahmin, with whom I was much pleased.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar George Smith
noun
a fine soft wool from goats of the Kashmir area
cloth or knitted material made from this or similar wool
(as modifier): a cashmere sweater
noun
a variant spelling of Kashmir
n.
1680s, “shawl made of cashmere wool,” from the old spelling of Kashmir, Himalayan kingdom where wool was obtained from long-haired goats. As a name for this kind of woolen fabric, favored for shawls, etc., it is attested from 1822.
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