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Definition of Shammy leather
1. Noun. A soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.
Generic synonyms: Leather
Specialized synonyms: Wash Leather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shammy Leather
Literary usage of Shammy leather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New French and English Dictionary in Two Parts by William Cobbett (1833)
"... a dresser of shammy leather. CHAMP, sm. a field, a piece of ground : a matter,
a subject to speak or write upon. Chump de bataille, a field of buttle. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"His last corps was | for it, soft ' shammy ' leather within, and red Stubbs' ...
It seems he took a fancy to my man-i "By the way, the shammy leather is of ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1861)
"But for the handle no man on earth would assign a "regulation" origin to it.
By the way, the shammy leather is of sambur hide, a largo, kind of deer, ..."
4. Big People and Little People of Other Lands by Edward Richard Shaw (1900)
"This leather is called shammy leather. Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather?
The flesh of the chamois is very good to eat. The people in Switzerland ..."
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