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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mohair

(Probably the Arabic mukhayyar, goat's-hair cloth.) It is the hair of the Angora goat, introduced into Spain by the Moors, and thence brought into Germany.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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