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Meanings of shammy in английском

португальский
camurça
каталонский
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 английском
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
португальский
camurça
каталонский
camussa
Shammy through the time