camel's hair

¹

noun

1. the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
2. a soft cloth made of this hair, or of a substitute, usually yellowish tan to yellowish brown in color.

camel's-hair

²

[ kam-uhlz-hair ]

adjective

1. made of camel's hair.

camel's hair

noun

1. See camel hair

Example Sentences

The night was billed as a “salon,” and the crowd, which included the novelist Edward St. Aubyn, was elegant and arty, with lots of leggy women in black tights and men in perfectly draped camel’s-hair coats.

From New York Times

I’m pregnant with my second child now, and I’m not worried that my child is going to be born covered in hair because I looked at a picture of a saint wearing camel’s-hair clothing.

From Slate

Lane noticed a faded but distracting enough lipstick streak on the lapel of Sorenson’s camel’s-hair coat.

From Literature

Eloise turned up the collar of her camel’s-hair coat, put her back to the wind, and waited.

From Literature

When they are taken out of this, they are cleaned with a camel’s-hair brush dipped in alcohol or castor oil.

From The New Yorker