camel's hair

1. 1.

   a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel

   Synonymscamelhair

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Questions about camel's hair

What does camel's hair mean?

camel's hair means "a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel".

What is another word for camel's hair?

Close synonyms include camelhair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camel's hair a common word?

camel's hair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.