shmatte

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

Julie Gerstenblatt: Mouse Mother Julie Gerstenblatt 2011

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

Ready To Ware 2008

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 2008

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 2008

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 2007

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 1999

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?”

Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996

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

Chicago Reader 2010

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

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Naomi Carniol 2010

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

SFGate: Top News Stories Abbie Kozolchyk 2010