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karakul

noun

  1. type of hat
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Turkic. Literally, “black lake”. Doublet of Karakol.

  1. A lake in Tajikistan.
  2. A lake in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

noun

Etymology: Named after the town Qorakoʻl, from Uzbek, meaning black lake.

  1. A sheep of a Central Asian breed.
  2. A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep.

    “The karakul hats took me back to a stifling summer afternoon in Kiev and the memory of a squadron of Cossack cavalry exercising down a cobbled street […].”