shahtoosh
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His earliest memories of fabric were totally sensory, he said, recalling the downy feel of a jamawar shawl at home in Srinagar and the soft warmth of his mother's shahtoosh saris.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
It produced an illusion of comfort, like that of an old shahtoosh shawl, but it was arousing, too, stirring memories of places I had never been, sensations I had never known.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
If you can pull the fine wool scarf through a ring, it is likely a shahtoosh, not a pashmina.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2016
Its wool came from a Central Asian species of goat, Capra hircus in Latin or shahtoosh in indigenous terms.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
This past January officials in Nepal seized a more than 2,500-pound cache of shahtoosh wool worth millions of dollars.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2013
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