the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
a soft cloth made of this hair, or of a substitute, usually yellowish tan to yellowish brown in color.
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For instance, camel’s hair is rubbed into linen batting in an installation by Mao Xin Ru, and a discarded toilet becomes an homage to the Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp in a work by Lu Kaiquan.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2011
Ms. Gallagher stood guard in blue baseball cap, vintage camel’s hair coat and beat-up leather gloves: the heat would not work, even for her.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2010
The folds in his plaid jacket and trousers suggest they are made of wool, and the cap is certainly of camel's hair.
From SAT Tests
His lone bow to sartorial propriety is a black Homburg hat, the high-toned effect of which he habitually voids by wearing with it a fuzzy, natural-color camel's hair coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was greatly hampered by his lack of book knowledge and of the knowledge of the meaning of characters written upon a paper with a camel’s hair brush and ink.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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