shammy
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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
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 Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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 Catharine Esther Beecher
They have had an afternoon's boating on the river; and, now returned to the "Harp"—their place of put-up—are flush of talk over their adventures, quaffing the sham "shammy," and smoking "regalias," not anything more genuine.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
At Stakna Monastery, perched on its floodplain outcrop, a portly monk shows us around dusky shrines, shammies tied to his feet to polish the parquetry as he shuffles along.
From Washington Post
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