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caracul

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car⋅a⋅cul

  [kar-uh-kuhl]
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–noun
Karakul.

Kar⋅a⋅kul

  [kar-uh-kuhl]
–noun (sometimes lowercase)
1. one of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised esp. for lambskins used in the fur industry. Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.
2. (sometimes lowercase) a Karakul lambskin.
Also, caracul.

Origin:
1850–55; after Kara Kul lake on the Pamir plateau, Tajikistan, near where the sheep were bred
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car·a·cul   (kār'ə-kəl)   
n.  Variant of karakul.
kar·a·kul also car·a·cul   (kār'ə-kəl)   
n.   In both senses also called broadtail.

  1. Any of a breed of Central Asian sheep having a wide tail and wool that is curled and glossy in the young but wiry and coarse in the adult.

  2. Fur made from the pelt of a karakul lamb.


[After Karakul, a lake of eastern Tajikistan.]
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