pashmina

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Etymology

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From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). Compare پشمین (pašmin).

Noun

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pashmina (countable and uncountable, plural pashminas)

  1. A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
  2. Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.
  3. Cashmere: a soft fabric made from this wool.
    • 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 66:
      Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."
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Spanish

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Noun

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pashmina f (plural pashminas)

  1. pashmina