Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamoys
Literary usage of Shamoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1847)
"In summer the shamoys remain upon the highest peaks of the rocks, or in cold and
inaccessible grottos; but in winter they prefer the forests and valleys. ..."
2. Depping's Evening Entertainments: Compromising Delineations of the Manners by Georges-Bernard Depping (1833)
"The usual hour of his departure is twelve at night, because he endeavours to
reach the most elevated pasturage of the Alps, to which the shamoys repair to ..."
3. Commentaries on the Productive Forces of Russia by Ludwik Tegoborski (1856)
"... as basis of the tariff of 1852 give a general average for leathers of 95 fl.
per centner, to which adding 5 per cent. for tawed leather, shamoys, ..."
4. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1804)
"The shamoys endeavour to save themselves through their ... However, this bird is
not the only enemy of the defenceless shamoys. The hunters are still more ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... a sort of leather made of the skin of the shamoys ; ' Phillips, ed. 1706.— F.
chamois, 'a wilde goat, ..."
6. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary by Great Britain Public Record Office (1871)
"... hozier, for making & part of the furniture of one payr of velvet hose, for
one other payr of shamoys lether, & for a payr of boot hose, as per byll, ..."
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