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[edit] Alternate meaning of PASHMINAS

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Just an FYI (I don't think it needs a disambiguation... yet ;-)...), but PASHMINAS is also an acronym coined (I think by people on HPfGU - Harry Potter for Grownups, a yahoo!group) after the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which expands to read: Prejudiced Against Snape, Harry Mis-Interprets Noble Albus's Sacrifice.--Anchoress 23:17, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

As an avid pashmina lover, I was disappointed in previous versions of Wikipedia. Bravo to whomever edited this. Prior versions had been used for marketing and contained deceptive information about the quality of Nepal pashmina versus Kashmiri/Indian pashmina goods. I own about a hundred pashmina shawls from all around the world and I enjoy those from Nepal and Kashmir equally. The only difference I can tell is that those from Kashmir cost more - most likely due to the unfortunate political situation there at present. I was duped into a viscose "pashmina" before and quickly could tell my mistake. It is just not as warm and comforting as the real thing.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.203.172.250 (talk • contribs).

I thought that Pashmina was a character from Hamtaro.

- While in this article it is written that "Pashmina is an indigenous Nepali word" I have read in Weekipedia "List of English words of Persian origin" that the word Pashmina comes from the Persian word "Pashmineh", made from pashm; pashm (= "wool"). I was told during my recent stay in Srinagar, capital of the Indian state of Kashmir, that Pashmina is a Persian word to name "the best of the wools". The weave so called, it is made out of the finest wool of the Kashmir goat, the one that grows in its chin. Maria Regueiro (Spain)