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• a variation of astrakhan.

astrachan

American  

[as-truh-kuhn, -kan] / ˈæs trə kən, -ˌkæn /

noun

1. astrakhan.

2. (initial capital letter) a tart, usually red or yellow variety of apple.

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astrachan

Already a red astrachan tree invited us on every trip to the brook, and other old 259 trees were bearing fast reddening fruit.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

Why not run the lawnmower over the astrachan collar?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 by Various

The American marveled at a recently immigrated Slav's astrachan cap.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

Beneath the hood of the carriage sat an aged man wrapped up to the throat in a wolfskin bunda, and with a large astrachan cap on his head drawn down over his eyes.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

Furs alone denote the difference of station, sable or blue fox denoting the mercantile Crœsus, astrachan or sheep-skin his clerk.

From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry