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单词 chamois
释义 chamois
 /sham"ee/; Fr. /shann mwah"/,  n.  ,  pl.   chamois, chamoix /sham"eez/; Fr. /shann mwah"/,  v.  , chamoised /sham"eed/, chamoising /sham"ee ing/.
  n.  
  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.
  v.t.  
  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).
 [1525-35; < MF < LL camox, presumably of pre-L orig.; cf. GEMS]
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