Astrakhan Definition

ăstrə-kăn, ä-strä-KHän
noun
A fabric with a curly looped pile, made to resemble karakul.
American Heritage
A loosely curled fur, a kind of karakul, made from the pelt of very young lambs originally bred near Astrakhan.
Webster's New World
A wool fabric with a pile cut and curled to look like this.
Webster's New World

Closely-curled black or grey fleece of very young karakul lambs from Astrakhan.

Wiktionary

Cloth resembling the above mentioned fur, often made from wool and mohair and used for trimmings.

Wiktionary
pronoun

A city in Russia, located on the Volga River.

Wiktionary
(archaic) Astrakhan fleece.
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Other Word Forms of Astrakhan

Noun

Singular:
astrakhan
Plural:
astrakhans

Origin of Astrakhan

  • Named from the Central-Asian city and oblast Astrakhan.

    From Wiktionary

Astrakhan Sentence Examples

  • A very large industry in Bukhara is the export of Astrakhan lamb skins (called locally Karakul).

  • The Golden Horde, long weakened by internal dissensions, had now fallen into several khanates, the chief of which were Kazan, Astrakhan and the Crimea.

  • Other ports in addition to those just mentioned are Astrakhan, on the Volga; Petrovsk, Derbent and Lenkoran, on the west shore; Enzeli or Resht, and Astarabad, on the Persian coast; and Mikhailovsk, on the east coast.

  • A plan had been elaborated at Constantinople for uniting the Volga and Don by a canal, and in the summer of 1569 a large force of Janissaries and cavalry were sent to lay siege to Astrakhan and begin the canal works, while an Ottoman fleet besieged Azov.

  • But a sortie of the garrison of Astrakhan drove back the besiegers; 15,000 Russians, under Knes Serebianov, attacked and scattered the workmen and the Tatar force sent for their protection; and, finally, the Ottoman fleet was destroyed by a storm.

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