Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as chamois, 2.
  • noun A bag of chamois leather in which miners keep their gold-dust.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The chamois.
  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chamois leather
  • noun a cloth made of this leather

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin

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  • These things are amazingly soft.

    June 23, 2008

  • Chamois?

    June 23, 2008