Did you mayhaps mean schemata?
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Examples
“I can no longer pick out some old "schmata": for my twins to wear to school.”
“I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.”
The Huffington Post: Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire
“Thus protected, the child then emerges on the leeward side of the bus where she is collected by a doting mother in a schmata.”
“I see this thing as a result of a little game called ‘pin the doiley on the schmata’”
“Last week I was cruising through a Facebook friend's wall postings and came across a friend of his wearing the tackiest of holiday sweaters: a bright red schmata adorned with embroidered snowflakes and a quartet of Frosty the Snowmen.”
“The Rock Racing jersey, cigarette, and Euro-schmata are the Holy Trinity of roadie attitude.”
“Just to refresh your memory, the winner of this contest will receive: a pie plate (but not the schmata I'm using to hold the pie plate); a chainring (courtesy of Fyxomatosis); a beer cozy and an elk's tooth (courtesy of Stevil of HTATBL); and a Boston Whaler decal (courtesy of Bluenoser).”
“It can find you regardless of whether you're wearing a Bell, or a Giro, or a flat-brim cap, or a Euro-schmata, or a Stetson, or even a soccer ball.”
“Must be heady for a union organizer who came out of the schmata business.”
“So you can imagine my relief when I opened the package and found this elegant schmata:”
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chained_bear Yes, that more common spelling is noted on the schmatta page, I think... Oct 4, 2008
mollusque Schmatte is the spelling used in OED2 and RHD2. Schmata is the commonest spelling in a Google search, although some of the hits are for "data, schmata".
Oct 4, 2008
chained_bear it's more often spelled schmatta, I think... though Yiddish spelling is hardly standardized... Oct 4, 2008
dontcry a rag
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