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shammy

[sham-ee] / ˈʃæm i /


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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

He scrubbed his lips with one end of the napkin and called across to Ruth, who shrank behind her mother: ``Vell, Miss Dene, you have today a shammy seen, not?''

From In the Quarter by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Old Russell with a smeared shammy rag burnished again his gem, turned it and held it at the point of his Moses' beard.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James




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