mohair

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mo·hair /ˈməʊheə $ ˈmoʊher/ noun [uncountable]  TIDCexpensive wool made from the hair of the angora goat 马海毛〔用安哥拉山羊毛制成〕 a mohair sweater 马海毛毛衣

Examples from the Corpus

mohair• Underneath the coat was a mohair suit the same colour as mine.• In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres, principally wool and mohair.• Wind whistled through my black mohair.• I looked along the black mohair to my socks.• She dressed in an unvarying uniform of black ski pants and pink mohair pullover which became grubbier as the weeks passed.• Alida Thorne wore her best suit, a straight-skirted mohair tweed in jewel green.• There's a ready sale for the mohair and fleeces.Origin mohair (1600-1700) mocayare “mohair” ((1500-1600)), from early Italian mocaiarro, from Arabic mukhayyar “choice”; influenced by hair

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mohair
mo‧hair /ˈməʊheə $ ˈmoʊher/ noun [uncountable]expensive wool made from the hair of the angora goat:
    a mohair sweater

mo·hairBrE /ˈməʊheə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmoʊher/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] soft wool or cloth made from the fine hair of the angora goat , used for making clothes 安哥拉山羊毛毛线（或织物）；马海毛毛线（或织物）◆a mohair sweater马海毛毛衣