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chamois
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "Alpine antelope;" 1570s, "soft leather," originally "skin of the chamois," from Middle French chamois "Alpine antelope" (14c.), from Late Latin camox (genitive camocis ), perhaps from a pre-Latin Alpine language that also produced Italian camoscio ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 456 Housing Units (2000): 230 Land area (2000): 0.359529 sq. miles (0.931176 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.021011 sq. miles (0.054418 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.380540 sq. miles (0.985594 sq. km) FIPS code: 13060 Located within: Missouri ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN leather ▪ Suburban roads were alive with the squish of chamois leather . ▪ Rubbing this chamois leather expels some of the negative material from it. ▪ Leaves have a citrus fragrance and glycerine beautifully, turning ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin [syn: chamois leather , chammy , chammy leather , shammy , shammy leather ] hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shammy \Sham"my\, n. [F. chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See Chamois .] (Zo["o]l.) The chamois. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying ...
Usage examples of chamois.
Comrade Gooch reminded me of the untamed chamois of the Alps, leaping from crag to crag.
Their guide, heartened by the good audience response, points out more funny trees - the dynamite tree, Hura crepitans, whose fruit explodes when it is ripe, and the very rare Cecropia of South America, the sloth tree, indeed the only mature Cecropia palmata in the United States, whose leaves have the texture of chamois skin and never disintegrate.
The days moved on in a golden round of riding and driving and shooting: down to Landl and Thiersee for chamois, across the river to the magic Achensec, up the Zillerthal, across the Schmerner Joch, even to the railway station at Steinach.
Bernard possessing nothing whatever for the support of man or beast except that which came from the liberality of the monks, every animal but the chamois and the laemmergeyer refusing to ascend so near the region of eternal snows.
Chet awakened the next morning and found him seated on his bedroll, the chamois band knotted around his neck since Long Moc now fastened across his forehead.
Shinytools in a punchboard rack, chamois cloths folded into neat squares, tins ofpaste wax, chrome polish, saddle soap.
Droves of one hundred million chamois are not unusual in the Swiss hotels.
We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and struting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them.
He said the chamois was plentiful enough, without hunting up hotels where they made a specialty of it.
I ordered that in the future the chamois must not be hunted within limits of the camp with any other weapon than the forefinger.
It did not seem possible that the imaginary chamois even could climb those precipices.
The four little black hoofs of the chamois stuck pitifully up out of the bag on his broad back.
This was a small chamois bag, and out of it he took something that pulsed with incredible fires.
He pulled out the chamois bag with its precious contents and made as if to toss it.
He counted the coins in his chamois bag, ensuring that the hush money was all there.