Noun: chamois
| Singular | chamois |
| Plural | chamoises; chamois; chamoix |
Sample Sentences
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When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. [1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter I, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:]
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[H]e seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamoy doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth. [1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter XVI, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 317:]
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I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier. [1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 39:]
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Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois. [1984, Cruising World, page 158:]
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Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster. [1989, Popular Mechanics, page 146:]
Nouns inflected like chamois
chamois,
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).
Verbs referencing "chamois"
Old Portuguese Nouns
bezerro, Old Spanish Nouns
bezerro, Irish Nouns
seamaí.