Definition of Chamois cloth

1. Noun. A piece of chamois used for washing windows or cars.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamois Cloth

chamisal
chamisals
chamisas
chamise
chamises
chamiso
chamisos
chamlet
chamlets
chammied
chammies
chammy
chammy leather
chammying
chamois
chamois cloth (current term)
chamois cress
chamois leather
chamoised
chamoises
chamoising
chamoix
chamomile
chamomiles
chamomilla
chamosite
chamotte
champ
champ at the bit
champac

Literary usage of Chamois cloth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of Madame Du Barry, of the Court of Louis XV by Hugh Noel Williams (1910)
"On ordinary occasions, the valets-de-chambre and footmen contented themselves with “coats of chamois cloth ..."

2. The Gasoline Automobile by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"If the silvered surface becomes tarnished it may be polished by means of crocus or jeweler's rouge, which is applied with a chamois cloth. ..."

3. Putnam's Household Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1916)
"A brass bed should not be washed but cleaned by rubbing with a piece of chamois cloth, slightly dampened. Obstinate spots can be removed with a light ..."

4. The Unrivalled Cook-book and Housekeeper's Guide by Washington (1885)
"Wash clean with water in which a little soda has been dissolved, wipe dry, and polish with a rag and a little bluing powder; finish with a chamois cloth, ..."

5. Fire Insurance Inspection & Underwriting by Charles Carroll Dominge, W. O. Lincoln (1920)
"Cleaning chamois skin gloves with gasoline by rubbing them, or cleaning silk in the same way, or filtering gasoline through a chamois cloth when filling an ..."

6. First Aid to the Young Housekeeper by Christine Terhune Herrick (1900)
"There are other dusters of a chamois cloth, which are admirable. Anything is preferable to the feather-duster, which is in its most useful sphere as the ..."

7. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1907)
"Make a tepid suds of Ivory Soap, dip a cloth in it, squeeze, and go over the furniture several times. Polish with a chamois cloth. ..."

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