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merino: tags: [fashion]

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Definition:

1. a commercially breed of sheep esteemed for its wool
2. anything produced from said wool, such as yarn, fabric, clothing, etc.
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[...] Australia's fifth largest agricultural enterprise, approx 60,000 Merino sheep (wool considered especially fine).

Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.528 (2009)

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He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

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A young woman in a blue merino dress with three flounces came to the threshold of the door to receive Monsieur Bovary,

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.