n. In both senses also called broadtail.
- Any of a breed of Central Asian sheep having a wide tail and wool that is curled and glossy in the young but wiry and coarse in the adult.
- Fur made from the pelt of a karakul lamb.
[After Karakul, a lake of eastern Tajikistan.]
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