pashm

English

Noun

pashm (countable and uncountable, plural pashms)

1. The raw unspun wool of the Cashmere goat.
   • 1873, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, volume 5, page 203:

     The pashms of Rodak, Ladak, Spiti, Rampur, Bashabir are a second class wool, and form the staple export to the shawl manufacturing cities of the Panjab.

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