karakul

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Recent Examples of karakul In their place are elderly, ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing black overcoats and fedoras; south and central Asians with traditional karakul hats; and gaggles of merchants shouting in languages from across the world. Barak Richman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020 Most fur-bearing animals have never been domesticated, which makes raising a fox for the trim of a parka inherently crueler than aborting a karakul lamb for a wool cap, animal rights activists say. Glendale News-Press, 29 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for karakul
Noun
  • Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Wheat, cattle and sheep lined the horizon.
    Reid Rasner, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Skip the sheepskin and go for a classic leather.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
  • His fans wore fur coats or sheepskin.
    Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These goatskin leather gloves are a match for heavy-duty garden work.
    Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Its glossy goatskin leather fabrication adds to the sumptuousness of it all.
    Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This officer wore a large-brimmed hat and a deerskin coat.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 June 2025
  • Part Cherokee, her period garb of choice is a deerskin American Indian maiden’s dress.
    Tina Li, Sacbee.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Woodward Jacket is reimagined in fine Italian lambskin leather with a unique silver herringbone print, paying homage to traditional menswear fabrics, a brand staple.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The doctor’s nurse gave me a natural lambskin rubber prophylactic and the directions to the men’s room.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Our elders know how to make tools and sealskin pants the right way.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The visitors admired the traditional regalia that whaling crews donned later in the day and participated in the blanket toss, with children jumping on the sealskin blanket and a few adults in the group helping hold it up.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • To elevate your own sporty shorts, try finishing off the look with an A.L.C cropped ivory tank top with sulfurous Castaigne kidskin slides.
    Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017

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“Karakul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/karakul. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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