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chamois
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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, Spanish camuza, Old High German gamiza, German Gemse (though some of these might be from Latin camox). As a verb, "to polish with chamois," from 1934.
Wiktionary
a. Chamois-coloured. n. 1 A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; (taxlink Rupicapra rupicapra species noshow=1). 2 (qualifier: Usually as “chamois leather”) Soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used). 3 The traditional colour of chamois leather.
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 [syn: Rupicapra rupicapra]
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Wikipedia
The chamois (Rupicapra spp.) is a goat-antelope genus native to mountains in Europe, including the European Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Tatra Mountains, the Balkans, parts of Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Apennines. The chamois has also been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand. Some subspecies of chamois are strictly protected in the EU under the European Habitats Directive.
A chamois is a goat-like animal native to Europe; the term may be used to refer to the specific species Rupicapra rupicapra or the genus Rupicapra broadly.
Chamois may also refer to:
- Chamois, Aosta Valley, a place in Italy
- Chamois, Missouri, a place in the United States
- Chamois Niortais FC, a football team
- Chamois grip, a part of a hockey stick
- Chamois leather
- A cotton simulation of chamois leather (see Glossary of textile terminology)
- In cycling, clothing items traditionally made with chamois leather:
- Cycling shorts
- Cycling pad
- Singer Chamois, a British car
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, a Panamanian steamship in service 1949-58
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.