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
The Manhattan department store had sold scores of coats which it had advertised as being 60% Stroock cashmere, then discovered that some of them were 59% camel's hair with counterfeit "Stroock" labels.
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
I’m pregnant with my second child now, and I’m not worried that my child is going to be born covered in hair because I looked at a picture of a saint wearing camel’s-hair clothing.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
He was wearing a camel’s-hair coat and carrying a leather briefcase.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2014
When they are taken out of this, they are cleaned with a camel’s-hair brush dipped in alcohol or castor oil.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
At 8:25 a.m., wearing a camel's-hair polo coat and soft brown fedora, he stepped smilingly out of Fitzsimons Army Hospital, accompanied by Mamie and her mother, Mrs. Doud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perdie strolls in, her camel’s-hair coat thrown loosely, gracefully over one shoulder, her schoolbooks balanced on one hip.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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