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A goat that can't decide if it's cashmere or mohair, so it picked both.
means Cashgora is a fiber, and the goat that produces it, derived from crossing a cashmere-type goat with an Angora goat, yielding fleece with qualities of both cashmere and mohair.
from A blend word for a blend animal: "cash" from cashmere plus "gora" from Angora. Cashmere itself traces to Kashmir, the Himalayan region whose goats yielded the famously soft down; Angora comes from the older name of Ankara in Turkey, long associated with that breed's lustrous fleece (and likewise with the angora rabbit). So this is a 20th-century coinage stitching two place-named luxury fibers into one — a portmanteau as crossbred as the goat itself.
- hybrid origin
- Cross between cashmere and angora goats
- fiber type
- Softer than mohair, coarser than true cashmere
- name math
- Cashmere plus angora equals cashgora
- texture
- Has lustrous sheen mohair is famous for
- sorting issue
- Fleece often hand-separated from coarse guard hairs