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Meanings of alpaca in English
Domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco.
Usage of alpaca in English
1
She looked at the grey alpaca dress before her, in some perplexity.
2
The alpaca is smaller than the llama, and somewhat resembles the sheep.
3
I wish mamma had not made me wear this green alpaca to-day.
4
Arriving guests are given shoes made of alpaca leather and wool.
5
I wear this black alpaca because it is cheap and decent and protective.
6
A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
7
In the textile industries ''alpaca'' is a name given to two distinct things.
8
I noticed that one of the alpaca throws was over me.
9
The hearse was entirely covered with cloth, velvet, crape, and alpaca.
10
This is the only gown I've got, except an old alpaca.
11
A drab sack-coat of alpaca hung, unbuttoned, down to his knees.
12
It is the Umbrella-oldfamiliar bone-handle, brass ferrule-ina bran-new dress of alpaca!
13
It was certainly neither merino, muslin, cashmere, rep, satin, alpaca, cloth, nor flannel.
14
It has also turned up in cats, dogs, an alpaca and a sheep.
15
The llama and the alpaca are domesticated; the guanaco and the vicuna run wild.
16
I see her now in the shabby grey alpaca, with the inkstains on it.
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