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shawl

Persian shāl named the fine woollen wraps of Kashmir; the British in India took the word from Hindustani, and the 'Kashmir shawl' became a European fashion — French châle, Russian shal', German Schal, Portuguese xaile — while Turkish and Arabic took şal straight from Persian.

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