pashmina

English

Etymology

From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). Compare پشمین (pašmin).

Noun

pashmina (countable and uncountable, plural pashminas)

1. A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
2. Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.
3. Cashmere: a soft fabric made from this wool.
   • 2004, Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker, The American Girl, Other Press, published 2009, page 66:

     Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."

Related terms

• pashm

Spanish

Noun

pashmina f (plural pashminas)

1. pashmina