shmatte

• “• Suck their thumb until the age of 7 and/or carry around a dirty, beloved shmatte like Linus from The Peanuts”

  The Huffington Post: Julie Gerstenblatt: Mouse Mother

• “They hail from an upper-class hoity-toity milieu — they met at the superfarty Wellington College — so I can only imagine how bizarre and declasse it must seem to their friends and family that they chose to enter the shmatte business.”

  Fashion���s Midget Moment: Bryant Park Tents Billow With Teensy Togs

• “One day, postulates Media Lab professor Alex Pentland, we might want to slip into a shmatte that handles all of those tasks.”

  Newsweek: Ready To Ware

• “Even given this broad re-engagement with Jewish culture and history, the nostalgia for and interest in the shmatte business over the past decade has been overwhelming.”

  Shmatte Chic | Jewschool

• “And Ariel Durant, who's wrapped in this kind of shapeless shmatte and there's this little old lady with gray hair, had the face of Madam”

  Another Life: A Memoir of Other People

• “Ask Tessie, for instance, why being an Orthodox Jew is so important to her, and she answers rhetorically: “Why does an Arab wear the shmatte on his head?””

  Simon & Schuster: Tessie and Pearlie

• “My mother resorted to slicing that tattered shmatte in half every time it came out of the dryer.”

  Chicago Reader

• “Josh Title knows a thing or two about the shmatte business.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “No sooner had I turned off the port's muddy main drag - and into the local shmatte district”

  SFGate: Top News Stories

• “I was back in the house on Atlantic, and it seemed a small matter to close my eyes, step forward, and enter that forever-dark living room with its shmatte-covered sofa, the chair wrapped in plastic that No One Must Ever Sit In, the TV no one ever turned on, the cabinets of tchotchkes.”

  Balls and Walnuts

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