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单词 chamois- leather
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chamois- (shamoy-, shammy-) leather
a. (Forms: 1500s shameuse, 1500s, 1700s shamway, 1500s–1600s shamoyes, 1600s chamoyse, chamoy, chammois, 1600s– shamois, shamoy, chamois; also shammy n.1) Originally, a leather, prepared from the skin of the chamois; now applied to a soft, pliable leather prepared from the skins of sheep, goats, deer, calves, and the split hides of other animals. More fully chamois- (shamoy-, shammy-) leather; see quots. α below.
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chamois1575
losh hide1583
shambo leather1612
wash-leather1681
shammy-leather1714
shambo skin1755
losh leather1756
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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 140 Of Shameuse leather, or soft Calues leather, or suche other leather as maye bee gentle and plyaunte to hir legge.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 328 Hides and shamway skins very well dressed.
1668 H. Rolle Abridgm. 63 He hath cozened you, and hath sold you Lamb-skins instead of Shamoys-skins.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xi. 205/2 Rams-skins, and Sheeps-skins sold for right Shamways..to the wrong and hindrance of the Buyer.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 347 Pieces of soft shamoy leather.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 539 Squeeze it through a piece of shamois leather.
1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema lii What she had kept for years in a bag of chamois-leather.
β. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 334 Many mantles, and shamwayes very well dressed.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. iii. f. 250v Buffe, Shamoyes, stryped Marokines.1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie ii. sig. D2 Let thy bounty Clap him in Shamois.1633 Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. The king..forthwith called for a new sute of chammois.1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. xvii. 114 Shreads of Sheep's-Skin, or Shamoy.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 69 The leather called shammoy is made also from those [sc. the skins] of the tame goat, the sheep, and the deer.1831 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. II. 231 Softer than the softest shamoy.1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 20 A bit of chamois or wash-leather perfectly free from dust.
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