cashmere (kashmer)

and a. [Also written cache mere (and with altered form and sense cas i mire, ca imere, kerseymere, q. v.); = F. cache mire = D. kashemire = G. Kaschmir ( -schawls ) = Dan. kasimir = Turk. qāzmir, cashmere, so called because first made in Cashmere (F. Cache mire, G. Kaschmir), now commonly written Kashmir, repr. Kashmir, the native name (Skt. Kaçmir a ), a state and valley in the Himalaya mountains north of the Panjab.] I. n. A fine and soft woolen fabric used for dre -goods. It differs from merino in being twilled on one side only. II. a . Made of the dre -fabric so named. Cashmere shawl, or India shawl , a shawl originally made in the valley of Cashmere, and afterward in the Panjab, from the fine downy wool found about the roots of the hair of the wild goat of Tibet and the Him a lay as. It is also known as the camel's - hair shawl , from the popular notion that the finest were formerly made of that material.