Did you mayhaps mean one of these? schemata, schmaltz, schmatte
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“In New York City, the garment industry has long been known as the "schmatta" trade.”
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“Gilt Groupe and its barrage of daily Internet flash sales has so rapidly changed the way consumers approach shopping and become such a part of our daily routine that it seems inconceivable that a New Yorker — especially one who traffics on the sidelines of the schmatta business — wouldn't be aware of it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Surviving Fashion Week: Dinner for 40
“I could have worn a schmatta," said the jeweler Hilary Tisch, there with her pal Nicole Richie.”
The Wall Street Journal: Anatomy of an L.A. Museum's Fall Affair
“Schmatta is the Yiddish word for rags in somewhat of a sad shape, as in, "wouldn't be caught dead in that schmatta.”
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“While I had assumed that this was to protect her against rare European metalhead-borne illnesses, I now realize that it could have been she who was the carrier, and that the inferior quality of her off-brand silk schmatta had allowed her to pass it on to me.”
“It's an easy fit - great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest "guess who's coming to dinner" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.”
“It\'s an easy fit - great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest \ "guess who\'s coming to dinner\" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.”
“I can almost ... why, yes, I can almost see her wearing a schmatta in the desert, carrying pails of water to her quaint and dusty village!”
“NIGHTWEAR: schmatta -- knee-length loose linen shift, undyed and undecorated except for special occasions”
“She even chided Mary of Nazareth for wearing a "blue schmatta" instead of the Chanel suit, Jimmy Choos and Fendi bag that her job demands.”
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Favorite Foreign Words
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Scriptie: Miller's Crossing
By the Coen brothers, 1990.
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trivet also, schmatte... Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear I've seen this spelled shmatta, schmata, and shmata. I like this one the best, because it's Germanic/Yiddish spelling. Or at least it looks more like that than the others do. Oct 18, 2007