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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

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 clutch
  2. camel clutches
  3. camel driver
  4. camel drivers
  5. camel flu
  6. camel hair
  7. camel hairs
  8. camel jockey
  9. camel jockeys
  10. Camel League
  11. camel meat

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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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