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

Later, as I walked down 44th Street on my way to the theater, I found myself behind a tall, distinguished man in a camel's hair coat.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

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

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

Moreover I have on my desk a Brooks Brothers catalog, put out in the spring of 1908, with a photograph of a camel's hair ulster as part of its regular ready-made stock.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It’s lovely. It’s the first really good camel’s hair I’ve seen since the war. May I ask where you got it?”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger