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Meanings of shammy in English

Portuguese
camurça
Catalan
camussa
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A soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.

        camurça
        Synonyms
        Examples for "chamois"
        Examples for "chamois"
        1
        He tied the chamois bag round his neck again, and turned in.
        The Voice in the Fog
        2
        How about this little chamois-bag which I found in your trunk, Mr.
        The Voice in the Fog
        3
        Leather the shoulders, and part way down the upper arm, with chamois.
        The Land of Footprints
        4
        Three novel MRVs were isolated on cell culture from chamois lung tissues.
        Pubmed
        5
        Only a fox or an Alpine chamois could make that perilous descent.
        Greyfriars Bobby
        1
        To polish furniture, use a piece of velveteen instead of chamois leather.
        Fowler's Household Helps / Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps Ab...
        2
        Peter Ruff drew a little chamois leather bag from his pocket.
        Peter Ruff and the Double Four
        3
        He undid his coat and waistcoat and displayed a plain vest of chamois leather.
        The Great Impersonation
        4
        The body was concertinaed and looked like chamois leather with some dark brown blotches.
        The Irish Times
        5
        She wiped it away with the chamois leather.
        The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
        1
        He had shammy leather gloves on, and was in Hickman's cab.
        The Imaginary Marriage
        2
        Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
        Big People and Little People of Other Lands
        3
        This leather is called shammy leather.
        Big People and Little People of Other Lands
        Usage of shammy in English
        1
        The pouch was made of soft shammy, and was surprisingly heavy.
        A Fortress of Grey Ice
        2
        He had shammy leather gloves on, and was in Hickman's cab.
        The Imaginary Marriage
        3
        Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
        Big People and Little People of Other Lands
        4
        The red-cheeked axman was clearly unhappy, and the shammy he held in his hands was dark with sweat.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        5
        This leather is called shammy leather.
        Big People and Little People of Other Lands
        6
        A cheap shammy cloth works great.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
        7
        Glancing at Mallin, who was buffing his fingernails with a shammy as he rode, Bram decided to risk a question.
        Watcher of the Dead
        8
        Orwin Shank wrung sweat from his shammy, and Ballic the Red took a handful of black curd between his callused hands and squeezed them flat.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        9
        'Not a bit of it; no danger of cold when you have shammy-leather drawers.'
        Muslin
        10
        Shammy, the dwarf god of good fortune, when the earth exploded underneath him and he found himself straddling the blade of a shuttle ice-breaker prow.
        Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
        Translations for shammy
        Portuguese
        camurça
        Catalan
        camussa
        Shammy through the time