grey astrakhan
(US gray astrakhan)
noun
1The dark grey curly fleece of newborn or fetal karakul lambs, used for clothing or as a trimming.
2A coat or other item of clothing made from this.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Sheffield & Rotherham Independent.
- godmotherhood
- godmothership
- Godness
- god-one
- God (or goodness or heaven) knows
- God (or Heaven) forbid
- go down
- godown
- go down a bomb
- go down a storm
- go down in history
- go down on
- go down (or drop or fall) like ninepins
- go down (or over) like a lead balloon
- go down the drain
- go down the gurgler
- go down the pan
- go down the plughole
- go down the toilet
- go down the tube (or tubes)
- go down the wrong way
- go down with
- godpapa
- godparent
- God particle