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Definition of Chamois

1. Noun. A soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin.

2. Noun. Hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips.

Definition of Chamois

1. n. A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

Definition of Chamois

1. Adjective. Chamois-coloured. ¹

2. Noun. A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; ''Rupicapra rupicapra''. ¹

3. Noun. (qualifier Usually as “chamois leather”) Soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used). ¹

4. Noun. The traditional colour of chamois leather. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chamois

1. a soft leather [n -OIX] / to prepare leather like chamois [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamois

chamisa chamisal chamisals chamisas chamise chamises chamiso chamisos chamlet chamlets

chammied chammies chammy chammy leather chammying chamois (current term) chamois cloth chamois cress chamois leather chamoised

chamoises chamoising chamoix chamomile chamomiles chamomilla chamosite chamotte champ champ at the bit

Literary usage of Chamois

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

1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"chamois (Rupicapra tragus)—chamois stalking is with the Austrians what fox-hunting is in England ... The chamois is hunted by the Birsch method, or stalked, ..."

2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1894)
"chamois Hunting above the Snow Line. AROUND the chamois and the chase thereof ... Only the other day a gentleman, hearing I had been out chamois hunting, ..."

3. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1810)
"The male does not differ from the female in appearance as the horns, colour, and proportion are exactly alike. THE chamois GOAT ..."

4. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"A chamois-HUNTER set out early one morning, and ascended the mountains. He had arrived at a great height, and was in view of some chamois, when, ..."

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