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Shammy

noun
1.
A soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.  Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather.





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"Shammy" Quotes from Famous Books



... gloves are specified as suitable for mourning; for instance, in the Boston Independent Advertiser in 1749, "Black Shammy Gloves and White Glazed Lambs Wool Gloves suitable for Funerals." White gloves were as often given as black, and purple gloves also. Good specimens of old mourning gloves have been preserved in the cabinets of the Worcester Society ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle


Words linked to "Shammy" :   chammy leather, chammy, shammy leather, wash leather, leather, chamois leather, chamois


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