The skin of still-born or very young lambs from Astrakhan in Russia, the wool of which resembles fur.
1766. Earl March, in Selwyn & Contemps., II. 116. My black silk coat lined with an Astrakan.
1859. W. Boyd, Swartzen (1865). With a muff … Of chinchilla, fitch, opossum,… Astrakhan.
