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cham⋅ois

  [sham-ee; Fr. sha-mwah] noun, plural cham⋅ois, cham⋅oix  [sham-eez; Fr. sha-mwah] , verb, cham⋅oised  [sham-eed] , cham⋅ois⋅ing  [sham-ee-ing] .
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–noun
1. an agile, goatlike antelope, Rupicapra rupicapra, of high mountains of Europe: now rare in some areas.
2. a soft, pliable leather from any of various skins dressed with oil, esp. fish oil, originally prepared from the skin of the chamois.
3. a piece of this leather.
4. a cotton cloth finished to simulate this leather.
5. a medium to grayish yellow color.
–verb (used with object)
6. to dress (a pelt) with oil in order to produce a chamois.
7. to rub or buff with a chamois.
Also, chammy, shammy, shamoy (for defs. 2–4, 6, 7).

Origin:
1525–35; < MF < LL camox, presumably of pre-L orig.; cf. gems
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cham·ois   (shām'ē)   
n.   pl. cham·ois (shām'ēz)

  1. An extremely agile goat antelope (Rupicapra rupicapra) of mountainous regions of Europe, having upright horns with backward-hooked tips.

  2. also cham·my or sham·my (shām'ē) pl. cham·mies or sham·mies

    1. A soft leather made from the hide of this animal or other animals such as deer or sheep.

    2. A piece of such leather, or a cotton fabric made to resemble it, used as a polishing cloth or in shirts.

  3. A moderate to grayish yellow.


[French, from Old French, from Late Latin camōx.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

chamois 
1560, "soft leather," originally "skin of the chamois," from M.Fr. chamois "Alpine antelope," from L.L. camox (gen. camocis), probably from a pre-L. Alpine language.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Chamois

only in Deut. 14:5 (Heb. zemer), an animal of the deer or gazelle species. It bears this Hebrew name from its leaping or springing. The animal intended is probably the wild sheep (Ovis tragelephus), which is still found in Sinai and in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX. and Vulgate render the word by camelopardus, i.e., the giraffe; but this is an animal of Central Africa, and is not at all known in Syria.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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chamois

(species Rupicapra rupicapra), goatlike animal, belonging to the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), native to the mountains of Europe.

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