This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr. moire.] The hair of a kind of goat found in the neighborhood of Angora, in Asia Minor, and now also at the Cape and in California. The covering of this goat is a long, soft, silky, pure white hair or wool, which is woven into varieties of camlet, shawls, and trimmings, and in France into a fine kind of lace.
 
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