"chamois" in the noun sense
1. chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather
a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
2. chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra
hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
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