Angora goat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Angora goat
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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Next comes 10 pounds of cashmere, Angora goat mohair, silk and luxurious New Zealand wool, which wicks away moisture and cradles the sleeper.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2015
Another such adventure in the gap between art and life concerns a stuffed Angora goat with a tire around its tummy.
From Time Magazine Archive
How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959!
From Time Magazine Archive
Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Angora goat takes to Western Oregon as if it were his native home, and produces yearly from three to four pounds of hair, worth from sixty to eighty cents a pound.
From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis
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