cashmere

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cash=mere

CIDE DICTIONARY

cashmere, n. 

•  A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.  [1913 Webster]
•  A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.  [1913 Webster]

Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere; -- often called camel's-hair shawl.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cashmere, n.
1 a fine soft wool, esp. that of a Kashmir goat.
2 a material made from this.

Etymology

Kashmir in Asia

ROGET THESAURUS

cashmere

Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.