2. Noun. the fine wool that grows under the hair of this animal ¹
3. Noun. a soft fabric made from this wool ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pashmina
1. wool obtained from Himalayan goats [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pashmina
Literary usage of Pashmina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"For the rest, knitted fabrics, such as stockings, are often made of pashmina
thread ; and there is the plain woven cloth called ..."
2. A Summer Ride Through Western Tibet by Jane E. Duncan (1906)
"On the way we had passed a flock of small pashmina goats; a man lifted up the
long black hair of one of them and pulled out a tuft of the exquisitely soft ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... which consists of the very fine, soft, short, flossy under-wool, called pashm
or pashmina, found on the shawl-goat, a variety of Capra ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"They carried with them the national manufacture of their native valley, that of
shawls of pashmina wool, and made the town famous for the production of ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... soft, short, flossy under-wool, called pashm or pashmina, found on the
shawl-goat, a variety of Capra hircus inhabiting the elevated regions of Tibet. ..."
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