hair sheep

British  

noun

1. any variety of sheep growing hair instead of wool, yielding hides with a finer and tougher grain than those of wool sheep

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Example Sentences

Virginia C. Alenson Edinboro, Pa. It is too bad that innovative designers use the South African hair sheep for their fashions instead of the cow, which is in plentiful supply.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise and purple.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hair sheep comes from India, China, South America and Africa, generally from mountainous districts.

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