A soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.
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Examples for "chamois"
Examples for "chamois"
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He tied the chamois bag round his neck again, and turned in.
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How about this little chamois-bag which I found in your trunk, Mr.
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Leather the shoulders, and part way down the upper arm, with chamois.
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Three novel MRVs were isolated on cell culture from chamois lung tissues.
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Only a fox or an Alpine chamois could make that perilous descent.
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The pouch was made of soft shammy, and was surprisingly heavy.
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He had shammy leather gloves on, and was in Hickman's cab.
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Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
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The red-cheeked axman was clearly unhappy, and the shammy he held in his hands was dark with sweat.
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This leather is called shammy leather.
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He had shammy leather gloves on, and was in Hickman's cab.
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Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
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This leather is called shammy leather.
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To polish furniture, use a piece of velveteen instead of chamois leather.
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Peter Ruff drew a little chamois leather bag from his pocket.
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He undid his coat and waistcoat and displayed a plain vest of chamois leather.
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The body was concertinaed and looked like chamois leather with some dark brown blotches.
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She wiped it away with the chamois leather.
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The outside, also, well polished with sweet oil and stale milk, then enveloped in chamois leather.
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The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak, and laid it on the table.
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Smithers put his hand in his pocket and produced the coins; they were in a little chamois leather bag.
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Then he took a small piece of chamois leather from his waistcoat pocket and began to polish his glasses.
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For the slough in which it was rolled was fine chamois leather; what colour it had been could not be known.
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In one hand he held a turban of white muslin striped with red, in the other a small chamois leather bag.
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He spread the chamois leather out upon the table, and cut the skins into two long strips, about a foot broad.
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He was rehearsing in costume: a long blue frock-coat, with a collar reaching above his ears, and riding-breeches of chamois leather.
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With a fragment of chamois leather he lovingly polished the leering idol, crooning softly to himself and smiling his mirthless smile.
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For squeezing amalgam, strong calico, not too coarse, previously soaked in clean water, is quite as good as ordinary chamois leather.
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The sight of the fellow wandering about a garden bareheaded and gloved in yellow chamois leather had begun to affect my nerves.