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
There were advertisements in 1740 of "mourning shoes," "fine silk shoes," "flowered russet shoes," "white callimanco shoes," "black shammy shoes," "girls' flowered russet shoes," "shoes of black velvet, white damask, red morocco, and red everlasting."
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
The article known in commerce as chamois or shammy leather is also called wash-leather.
From American Woman's Home 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
