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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Example Sentences

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 Cullum, Ridgwell

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 Harding, Georgina

The man wears a black astrachan conical cap and his hair is long and bushy, from rubbing bear grease into it.

From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily

She wore her almost flaxen-gold hair waved, and parted low on the forehead, beneath a black astrachan toque, with a red enamel maple-leaf hatpin in one side of it.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard

My astrachan fur cap and coat-collar made him take me for a Russian, but, thanking him for his good opinion, I stated that as yet I was merely a Hungarian.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Jókai, Mór