camel's hair
noun
the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
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camel's hair
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the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
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a soft cloth made of this hair, or of a substitute, usually yellowish tan to yellowish brown in color.
camel's-hair
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[kam-uhlz-hair]
/ ˈkæm əlzˌhɛər /
adjective
camel's hair
British
noun
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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
His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand.
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
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
"I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel's-hair coat and heading for the door.
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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