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camel-hair

camel-hair is the alternative form of camelhair.

Meaning of camelhair

Noun

camelhair (countable and uncountable, plural camelhairs)

  1. The soft hair of a camel.
  2. A substitute for this hair.
    • Camelhair brushes are made for artists and architects from the hair of the tails of Russian squirrels.1993, Philip Ward, Panama hats, crocodile tears and other common fallacies, page 24
  3. A soft fabric made from this hair.

Forms of camel-hair

pluralcamel-hairs

Phrases with camel-hair

Questions about camel-hair

What is camel-hair the alternative form of?
Camel-hair is the alternative form of camelhair.

Words near camel-hair in the dictionary

  1. camel toes
  2. camel's hair
  3. camel's hairs
  4. camel's nose
  5. camel-cased
  6. camel-hair
  7. camel-hair brush
  8. camel-hair brushes
  9. camel-hairs
  10. camel-jockey
  11. camel-jockeys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camel-hair (page history and authors); camelhair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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