Pashmina vs Shawl - What's the difference?
pashmina | shawl |
A Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir.
Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.
Cashmere: a soft fabric made from this wool.
* 2004 Monika Fagerholm, Translator Kathleen Tucker,The American Girl , Other Press 2009, p.66:
A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders.
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As nouns the difference between pashmina and shawl
is that pashmina is a Cashmere; a goat native to Kashmir while shawl is a square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders.As a verb shawl is
to wrap in a shawl.pashmina
English
Noun
(en noun)- Pashmina was invented more than four hundred years ago when Nur Jaban, wife of the Emperor Jehangir, asked her weavers to present a woolen fabric that was "as light as a cloud but as warm as a tender embrace."