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Shammy   Listen
noun
Shammy  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The chamois.
2.
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. (Written also chamois, shamoy, and shamois)





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"Shammy" Quotes from Famous Books



... is built dretful shammy. Why I hearn that a man weighin' most three hundred took a room there, and comin' in one evenin' dretful tired from the day's tramp on the Fair ground leaned up heavy aginst the wall to pull off his boots, and broke right through into the ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley


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