PREFERRED TERM
Pashmina
DEFINITION
- n. A term of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from the Urdu and the Persian "pašmīna". Basically, a garment, like the shawl, from the fabric pashmina, which is a superior type of cashmere. It can be know as cahsmere, but takes its own name from the region of Kashmir in India and Pakistan.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
- wd:Q191022 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Châle
French
Sciarpa
Italian
Chal
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/724
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