- a variation of astrakhan.
astrachan
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She travelled with Panaurov in a reserved compartment; he had on his head an astrachan cap of peculiar shape.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The ordinary infantry uniform consists of a dark-blue tunic and trousers with red facings, and a high astrachan busby with the brass badge of the lion and sun.
From A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by Harry De Windt
His astrachan collar was turned up about his neck to shut out something of the biting winter air; and a cap of similar fur was pressed low down over his dark head.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
She talked and gesticulated with much vivacity and looked very girlish in a close-fitting jacket of dark-blue cloth, trimmed round the high collar and the cuffs with black astrachan and fine black braiding.
From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding
She got into her little blue jacket, with its neat collar and cuffs of astrachan.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
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