shammy
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of shammy
C18: variant, influenced by the pronunciation, of chamois
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“I always bring, and will certainly have my shammy, “Sammy” with me.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
“Only if you wear a shammy around your hairline. Did you wear a shammy?”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
From Big People and Little People of Other Lands by Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard)
The article known, in commerce, as chamois, or shammy, leather, is also called wash-leather.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
Before "grounding," the taste of the ordinary customer, who likes a pretty white "shammy," is consulted by bleaching most of the skins with sulphur.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
At Stakna Monastery, perched on its floodplain outcrop, a portly monk shows us around dusky shrines, shammies tied to his feet to polish the parquetry as he shuffles along.
From Washington Post
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