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

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

Then he tried to channel his thoughts from hate filled digressions to how in the vicissitudes of life among so many shammy faced people a face like his maintained a fairly stable look.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

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