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• camel's hair
  camel's hair

  noun

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

  adjective

  made of camel's hair.

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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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

London's latest sartorial smash is a camel's hair maxicoat for dogs.

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

Eloise turned up the collar of her camel’s-hair coat, put her back to the wind, and waited.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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