shammy

Example Sentences

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“I always bring, and will certainly have my shammy, “Sammy” with me.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2016

“Only if you wear a shammy around your hairline. Did you wear a shammy?”

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

Josiah iled up the old double harness and washed the democrat off and rubbed it down with shammy skin till it shone like glass.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

The article known, in commerce, as chamois, or shammy, leather, is also called wash-leather.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

Before "grounding," the taste of the ordinary customer, who likes a pretty white "shammy," is consulted by bleaching most of the skins with sulphur.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward