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Definition of Shamoy
1. to chamois [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: chamois
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamoy
Literary usage of Shamoy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Depping's Evening Entertainments: Compromising Delineations of the Manners by Georges-Bernard Depping (1833)
"I will to-night describe to you the chase of the shamoy which is no less daring and
... The shamoy inhabits the rocks and mountains of Switzerland, Savoy, ..."
2. A Manual of Useful Knowledge: Being a Collection of Valuable Miscellaneous by William Pybus (1810)
"... at discretion, iu- its own vinegar, and spread a layer of it on your wood;
when it is dry rub it with, a brush, and then with oiled shamoy skin; ..."
3. Routledge's French-English and English-French Dictionary (1887)
"... shain-el-yai, m. camel-driver. Chameau, sham-oh, m. camel. [whip. Chamois,
sham-wa, in. shamoy. ... sham-waz-ur, m. shamoy-dresser. ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"Though there is no little difference between the dressing of shamoy-leather,
alum-leather, Hungary-leather, Morocco- leather, parchment, and tanning; ..."
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