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
From kapok to camel's hair to cockroach powder to cosmetics, the list of things to which people are allergic is almost endless.
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
Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts.
From Time Magazine Archive
For her shopping trips to town she wore a camel’s-hair coat and a boater festooned with ribbon and striped lace.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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