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chamois

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

cham=ois

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chamois has 2 senses

chamois(n = noun.substance) chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather - a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin; Array

is a kind of leather

has particulars: wash leather

chamois(n = noun.animal) rupicapra rupicapra - hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips; Array

is a kind of goat antelope

is a member of genus rupicapra, rupicapra

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CIDE DICTIONARY

chamois, n. [F. chamois, prob. fr. OG. gamz, G. gemse.].

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase. [1913 Webster]
A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

chamois, n. (pl. same)
1 an agile goat antelope, Rupicapra rupicapra, native to the mountains of Europe and Asia.
2 (in full chamois leather) a soft pliable leather from sheep, goats, deer, etc. b a piece of this for polishing etc.

Etymology

F: cf. Gallo-Roman camox

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ROGET THESAURUS

chamois

Leap

N leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation, ance, caper, curvet, caracole, gambade, gambado, capriole, demivolt, buck, buck jump, hop skip and jump, falcade, kangaroo, jerboa, chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea, buckjumper, wallaby, leaping, saltatory, frisky, on the light fantastic toe, di salto in salto.

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