Word.ws English Dictionary

cashmire

cashmire is the obsolete form of cashmere.

Meaning of cashmere

Noun

cashmere (usually uncountable, plural cashmeres)

  1. (usually) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.
  2. (usually) A soft fabric made of this wool.
    • a cashmere sweater
  3. (countable, usually) A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.
  4. (broadly, countable, usually) Any similar shawl.

See all 6 meanings of cashmere

Forms of cashmire

pluralcashmires

Questions about cashmire

What is cashmire the obsolete form of?
Cashmire is the obsolete form of cashmere.

Words near cashmire in the dictionary

  1. cashmere
  2. cashmered
  3. cashmeres
  4. cashmerette
  5. cashmerettes
  6. cashmire
  7. cashmires
  8. Cashmiri
  9. Cashmiris
  10. Cashmoor
  11. Cashmore

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cashmire (page history and authors); cashmere (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cashmire.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cashmire. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.