Definitions for chamois

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chamois cham·ois

Spelling: [sham-ee; French sha-mwah]

IPA: /ˈʃæm i; French ʃaˈmwɑ/

Chamois is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in chamois (achimos).

Definitions for chamois

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, especially 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)

1. to dress (a pelt) with oil in order to produce a chamois.
2. to rub or buff with a chamois.

Origin of chamois

1525-35; Middle French Late Latin camox, presumably of pre-Latin orig.; cf. gems

Examples for chamois

But the chamois did not stir and gazed boldly into Swallow's eyes.

How the chamois hunter laughed at this, and showed his white teeth!

He went in and selected a couple of chamois skins, very thick and strong.

The Mail, helpfully, reports that Pippa has stocked up with special “chamois cream” for the purpose of protecting her butt.

By comparing him with the chamois, the insect, and the squirrel.

It should leap from crag to crag like the chamois of the Alps.

Those who, like the chamois (and the plant I spoke of) live only in high places.

Then she dried it with the chamois skins as she often had done before.

“You shall have the milk, lady,” returned the chamois hunter.

“If not, he should learn,” said the chamois hunter, viciously.