[modern form of ancient Ἀγκῡρα Ancȳra.]
1. A town in Asia Minor, giving its name to a species of goat, and to its silk-like wool; also to a long-haired variety of cat.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 511. The bright, silk-like wool of the Angora goat. Ibid. (1838), X. 223. The Angora cat with its long silky hair.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 177. The first parcels of Angora wool were shipped from Constantinople for England in 1820.
2. The fabric manufactured from the wool of the Angora Goat, now commonly called ANGOLA.
1867. Morn. Star, 12 April. Fancy boudoir mats in lambs’-wool and angora.
