A young goat or a type of small leather made from goat skin, often used for gloves or soft garments.
From French cabret, derived from Old French cabre (goat), itself from Latin capra. The diminutive sense developed as the term came to refer to young goats and their particularly soft leather.
Cabret leather became famous for kid gloves—the softest, most luxurious gloves in the world—and the word literally means 'little goat' in French, so you were wearing baby goat skin on your hands!
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