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
How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959!
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire.
From Time Magazine Archive
We mean by this, that the Angora goat raising industry is yet in its infancy, and that much of the mohair produced is sheared from goats which have been bred from the common hair variety.
From Practical Angora Goat Raising by
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