karakul
IPA: kˈɑrʌkˈuɫ
noun
- A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
- A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.
- A lake in Tajikistan.
- A lake in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China.
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Examples of "karakul" in Sentences
- A fur called broadtail, for example, is the skin of fetal or newborn karakul lambs who have been beaten to death.
- Coastal Bermuda covered the field in front of the house and a herd of karakul sheep kept the grass under control.
- Namibia's Swakara karakul pelt prices increased by a record 70 percent at an auction in Copenhagen, Denmark on Tuesday.
- Agriculture: largely subsistence farming and nomadic animal husbandry; cash products - wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts, wool, mutton
- Help would be given with emergency grazing, communal farmers would get financial help to buy fodder and subsidies would be provided to karakul farmers.
- The reason is not our minks, which are inferior to the Americans ', or lynx, which are too few, or karakul, which, after all, is sheepskin; the reason is Soviet sable.
- Beside the blue van stood a smiling man in the ubiquitous white pajamas, with a cap of curly black karakul - the fur from a newborn lamb, she happened to know - upon his head.
- After his early dalliance as the dapper darling of the international community, in his karakul cap and cape stylishly draped over a statesman's grey flannel suit, Karzai proved his skill as an Afghan trader.
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