(Probably the Arabic mukhayyar, goat’s-hair cloth.) It is the hair of the Angoʹra goat, introduced into Spain by the Moors, and thence brought into Germany.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.