Chamois is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHAMOIS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to prepare leather like chamois, also SHAMMY
• polish with a chamois
NOUN:
• a soft leather, also CHAMOIX, SHAMMY
• an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus.
• a type of soft pliable leather now made from sheepskin or lambskin.
• a piece of chamois leather, used for washing windows or cars.
• 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.
• A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.
• a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
• hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
• small mountain antelope or a piece of leather from its skin, used for polishing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• small mountain antelope or a pice of leather from its skin, used for polishing

Words related to CHAMOIS

chammy18 chamois14 chamoised17 chamoises16 chamoising18 chamoix21 shamois12 shamoy14

Words that contain CHAMOIS

chamoised17 chamoises16 chamoising18

How to use CHAMOIS in a sentence

• The chief men of this town came peaceably to visit us, bringing many mantles and chamois skins, excellently dressed, and great plenty of victuals.
• Some people carry a thin silk, or oil silk, or even chamois leather, or paper waistcoat, to put on under their coats when a wind blows.
• On Muottas Celerina this winter we saw four chamois below us in the wood.
• We started a chamois, and saw him race across the broad field of snow like the wind, while I could only follow, laboring knee-deep in the snow, like a tortoise after a hare.
• The guide was an old professional hunter, and knew the habits of the chamois well.
• With a piece of chamois leather, which he sometimes dipped into a little square tin, he began to polish the hideous figure.
• Then she hurriedly opened her trunk and hid the money in the chamois bag at the bottom.
• Then she took from a drawer the bit of chamois skin that I had given her, and passed it lightly over her eyelids and cheeks, humming softly to herself the while.
• He sat down sidewise, took out the chamois bag which hung around his neck, and poured the contents out on the blanket.
• Unobserved, he went down to his stuffy cabin, took off the chamois bag and locked it in his trunk.
• He tied the chamois bag round his neck again, and turned in.
• Breton put the ring in the little chamois bag which his mother had given him.
• But, see! though rash as the chamois he, His foot less sure.
• They have a particular art, too, of dressing this skin, so as to render it as soft and pliable as chamois, in which state it becomes a valuable article of trade.
• What skins are generally used for Gloves? Those of the chamois, kid, lamb, dog, doe, and many other animals.
• This coasting is very remarkable, and through skill in it, no doubt, the lives of many chamois are saved from frightful accidents later in life.
• Carefully he stowed his gold in a chamois pouch and prepared to leave the canon.
• Macdonald was ardently helping Francesca, who can climb like a chamois, but would doubtless rather be assisted.
• Diving into one of those receptacles that are a part of the mystery of the sex, she rubbed a chamois skin over her nose and her reddened eyelids.
• When dry, the silver film may be polished with a piece of chamois skin, touched with rouge, the polishing being accomplished by means of a light spiral stroke.
• The head gear is that known in this country as the Tyrolese hat, adorned by a chamois beard, which is inserted between the ribbon and the felt.
• Farther on, again, where the magnificent chamois sprang rigid into mid-air.
• It had the excellent quality of matching the chamois gloves.
• The old lady opened a drawer, found a chamois skin, and polished her glasses slowly.
• If they seem too metallic, try covering the head of the hammer with folds of chamois skin.

Similar words containing CHAMOI without suffix s

chamoix21 chamoised17 chamoises16 chamoising18

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