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单词 pashmina
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Definition of pashmina in English:

pashmina

noun pʌʃˈmiːnəpæʃˈminə
  • 1A shawl made from fine-quality goat's wool.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A secret pocket containing a sachet of natural, moth-repelling herbs ensures that your pashmina will emerge from the summer smelling sweet, rather than reeking of a musty old attic.
    • I must say it was very cunning of that MP sitting behind Brown to co-ordinate her pashmina with the contents of the missiles. [Yes, I know I'm a bit late on the uptake].
    • ‘Goodness no, I couldn't live in it,’ she says, hauling Moses onto her hip and wrapping him up in a pashmina.
    • Yes, my class-seeking desperados, pashmina as a shawl has passed its prime!
    • I bit my tongue but slipped my pink pashmina and kitten-heeled flip flops back into the wardrobe.
    • I take a cardigan and a pashmina, because on many planes you can freeze to death from the air conditioning.
    • I myself gave it a whirl, but counting was never my strong point, so I failed to progress beyond impossibly wide and long scarves - pashminas for a Siberian climate, if you like.
    • ‘We do make jokes about the students in their pashminas, but lots of them look amazing,’ McDermott says.
    • As soon as the weather turned cool and crisp in Delhi and women brought out their pashminas, the children knew something wonderful was brewing.
    • I'm not the type to wear pashminas and other things round my shoulders so I've had a nightmare trying to find something I like.
    • Then they head off, trailing pashminas and colouring books behind them.
    • So pay no attention to the women behind the pashmina.
    • There are television sets, pashminas and jewellery for those with lots of money and no taste, those with no money and lots of taste, and everything in between.
    • Beautiful pashminas or a designer outfit would also be perfect Christmas treats.
    • The markets are great places to purchase leather bags, belts and jackets, jewellery, pashminas, stationary and accessories.
    • Their uniform of choice this season appears to be, for ladies, a pashmina wrapped around the neck tightly enough to prop up one's chin, worn with the skimpiest vest top.
    • Anna muses, looking at a photograph of herself in a navy blue dress and palest blue pashmina.
    • Five minutes later, five Euros lighter, Lindsey flushed with pride as all admired her pashmina.
    • Dozens of stores claim to be closing down but somehow never do, with garish hoardings advertising two pashminas for a fiver.
    • Anyone who knows me will be most amused by that particular purchase - and let's face it, anyone who doesn't will probably be wondering when I'm going to get around to buying a pashmina.
    1. 1.1
      another term for pashm
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The pashmina wool obtained from the neck and underbelly of the ibex living in Ladakh and the Tibetian plateaux is much sought after for weaving classic soft shawls, and the animals are not killed for their wool.
      • The pashmina scarf he wants for his mother is not in stock at the government shops.
      • Clothes were less structured and formal, with plenty of cocktail dresses and pashmina shawls in evidence.
      • I am sorry that the color does not suit you, because a pashmina shawl is truly a lovely thing.
      • It includes scarves and shawls, silk handbags, silk velvet jackets, embroidered silk and woolen shawls and elegant pashmina shawls.
      • Even this old, tattered pashmina shawl of mine will not help matters.
      • The author delves into the history of the pashmina shawl, the slow and subtle evolution of brilliant motifs and the technique behind the making of it.
      • They favor white slacks and sweaters and pashmina shawls.
      • Most of them are Tibetan refugees, living on the raising of yaks, sheep and particularly goats whose wool, treated in a special manner, takes on the magic conjured by the name pashmina, also called Cashmere.
      • For a touch of luxury, The Cashmere Store in Shambles has pashmina stoles for £59 rather than £99.

Origin

Persian, from pašm 'wool'.

 
 

Definition of pashmina in US English:

pashmina

nounpaSHˈmēnəpæʃˈminə
  • Fine-quality material made from goat's wool.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The markets are great places to purchase leather bags, belts and jackets, jewellery, pashminas, stationary and accessories.
    • Five minutes later, five Euros lighter, Lindsey flushed with pride as all admired her pashmina.
    • Then they head off, trailing pashminas and colouring books behind them.
    • Yes, my class-seeking desperados, pashmina as a shawl has passed its prime!
    • I must say it was very cunning of that MP sitting behind Brown to co-ordinate her pashmina with the contents of the missiles. [Yes, I know I'm a bit late on the uptake].
    • Beautiful pashminas or a designer outfit would also be perfect Christmas treats.
    • I take a cardigan and a pashmina, because on many planes you can freeze to death from the air conditioning.
    • I'm not the type to wear pashminas and other things round my shoulders so I've had a nightmare trying to find something I like.
    • As soon as the weather turned cool and crisp in Delhi and women brought out their pashminas, the children knew something wonderful was brewing.
    • Their uniform of choice this season appears to be, for ladies, a pashmina wrapped around the neck tightly enough to prop up one's chin, worn with the skimpiest vest top.
    • I myself gave it a whirl, but counting was never my strong point, so I failed to progress beyond impossibly wide and long scarves - pashminas for a Siberian climate, if you like.
    • Dozens of stores claim to be closing down but somehow never do, with garish hoardings advertising two pashminas for a fiver.
    • Anyone who knows me will be most amused by that particular purchase - and let's face it, anyone who doesn't will probably be wondering when I'm going to get around to buying a pashmina.
    • Anna muses, looking at a photograph of herself in a navy blue dress and palest blue pashmina.
    • I bit my tongue but slipped my pink pashmina and kitten-heeled flip flops back into the wardrobe.
    • There are television sets, pashminas and jewellery for those with lots of money and no taste, those with no money and lots of taste, and everything in between.
    • ‘Goodness no, I couldn't live in it,’ she says, hauling Moses onto her hip and wrapping him up in a pashmina.
    • A secret pocket containing a sachet of natural, moth-repelling herbs ensures that your pashmina will emerge from the summer smelling sweet, rather than reeking of a musty old attic.
    • ‘We do make jokes about the students in their pashminas, but lots of them look amazing,’ McDermott says.
    • So pay no attention to the women behind the pashmina.

Origin

Persian, from pašm ‘wool’.

 
 
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