camelhair

Neither of them had seen him come, but he stood there, with his arms folded, a man in a camelhair robe and a green turban.

Traditionally, the cincture was made by the Virgin Mary herself, out of camelhair.

He rolled the body, unbuttoned the camelhair overcoat and searched swiftly through Sean's clothing.

Then I slipped under the goosedown comforter and a camelhair blanket.

He acquired the nickname "Honey Bear" in the 1930s because of his large camelhair coat.

He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley's and passes into the former.

He wore a hat and an unbuttoned camelhair coat over an elegant black suit that fit him far too well to be anything but tailor-made.

The camelhair sweater wasn't from the GUM either, nor the soft suede boots.

But the soft one in the camelhair coat was a different matter, and he'd risked trailing him back to his base once, and he could remember the way.

Women's camelhair coats down from £749 to £395, botany knitwear down from £79 to £49.

He wore a long camelhair overcoat, Dr Marten's boots, and his sandy hair grew spikily down his neck.

Sir Hilary Tremlett fetched out of his bed and wearing a camelhair coat over pyjama top and grey slacks.

The other was dressed like them in a white, girdled khalat and a flowing head-dress which, banded about the temples with a triple circlet of braided camelhair, fell to his shoulders.

He was wearing a belted camelhair Burberry that he'd told her he'd bought in Chicago but that had been manufactured in England, was she 225 familiar with the Burberry label?

And he kissed her lightly on the cheek, hoisted his trilby hat onto his head, shrugged on his camelhair coat, tucked his case beneath his arm, picked up his umbrella and departed.

In the closet under the safe, I found two camelhair blankets, "70 percent Kamelhaarm, 30 percent Schurwolle," mothproof and made by Sannwald in Austria, just like the ones my grandmother used to have.

The rest of us were following now, and the woman in the camelhair coat gave me a flashing smile and said in English - 'Hello, I'm Helen Maitland, and this is George, my husband.'

He wore an expensive camelhair coat and carried an elegant silver-tipped walking stick, and though he stood stock-still, staring at Peter, amidst the usual chaos that defined the city room on any working day, he somehow remained totally unnoticed by anybody.

Marjorie helps him on with his camelhair overcoat, a garment she persuaded him to buy against his better judgement, for it hangs well below his knees and, he thinks, accentuates his short stature, as well as making him look like a prosperous bookie.

The Gentleman was dressed for the cold, as he'd been yesterday, but in the warmer confines of the lobby he wore his camelhair coat loosely draped around his shoulders; his gloved hands emerged from the unbuttoned confines of the coat to show his contempt with an insulting display of applause.

'Camblet', a word as old as Marco polo, or even springing from earlier Arabic associations, connects into 'Camelot', fine cloth, finer than camelhair with which it became commonly associated, finer than wool, as fine as silk itself and perhaps a combination of camel and wool and silk.