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shatoosh

shatoosh is the alternative spelling of shahtoosh.

Meaning of shahtoosh

Noun

shahtoosh (countable and uncountable, plural shahtooshes or shahtoosh)

  1. (countable) A light but warm Kashmiri shawl made with hair from the chiru, or Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii), an endangered species.
    • These are first-quality shatoosh. Made from chin hairs of very rare Tibetan antelope. Woven in Kashmir.2007, Paul Theroux, “Monkey Hill”, in The Elephanta Suite, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 43
  2. (uncountable) Fibre used in the making of such shawls.

Forms of shatoosh

pluralshatooshes
pluralshatoosh

Questions about shatoosh

What is shatoosh the alternative spelling of?
Shatoosh is the alternative spelling of shahtoosh.

Words near shatoosh in the dictionary

  1. Shatnerizes
  2. Shatnerizing
  3. Shatners
  4. Shatnerverse
  5. shatnez
  6. shatoosh
  7. shatooshes
  8. shatposted
  9. shatranj
  10. Shatrughna
  11. shats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shatoosh (page history and authors); shahtoosh (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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