camel's hair

¹ American  

noun

1. the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.

2. a soft cloth made of this hair, or of a substitute, usually yellowish tan to yellowish brown in color.

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camel's-hair ² American  

[kam-uhlz-hair] / ˈkæm əlzˌhɛər /

adjective

1. made of camel's hair.

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camel's hair British  

noun

1. See camel hair

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Example Sentences

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

But he was scrupulously elegant, with a camel's hair accent and a mill-racing brain.

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