Definitions for Cashmere

Cashmere cash·mere

Spelling: [kazh-meer, kash-]
IPA: /ˈkæʒ mɪər, ˈkæʃ-/

Cashmere is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in Cashmere (aceehmrs).

Definitions for Cashmere

noun

  1. the fine, downy wool at the roots of the hair of the Kashmir goat.
  2. a garment made of this wool.
  3. a yarn made from this wool.
  4. a wool or cashmere fabric of plain or twill weave.
  5. Kashmir (def 1).

Origin of Cashmere

First recorded in 1815-25; named after Cashmere

Examples for Cashmere

Forget furs, cashmere, even fires—the best way to beat the cold?

It was a cashmere year for movies, so why are we cheering polyester?

The goats are grown for their wool in the vale of cashmere in the Himalaya Mountains.

But I wuz in hopes he would get her a cashmere, and told him so, plain.

Think $69 smocked bodice jumpsuits or $250 cashmere ones from French designers like Jacadi and Bonpoint.

She did not wear the conventional black silk or cashmere of a shop-woman.

Atop the mattress and box spring, Hughes reveals two “toppers,” stuffed with cashmere, horsehair, and lambswool.

But it feels so much better to: Blow the whistle you have until now been concealing underneath your cashmere sweater.

He went away to cashmere; he took one of the Christian fathers with him.

An' there's cousin Hattie's cashmere shawl, an' Obed's spe'tacles.

Word Value for Cashmere
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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