Usually means: Soft leather from goat, sheep.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. chamois: Merriam-Webster
  2. chamois: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chamois: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chamois: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chamois: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chamois, chamois: Wordnik
  7. chamois: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chamois: Wiktionary
  9. chamois: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chamois: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chamois: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chamois, chamois: Dictionary.com
  13. chamois: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Chamois (disambiguation), Chamois: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chamois: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chamois: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chamois: Rhymezone
  18. Chamois: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chamois: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. chamois: FreeDictionary.org
  21. chamois: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. chamois: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chamois: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chamois: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chamois: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chamois: Medical dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chamois: Easton Bible
  2. Chamois: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. CHAMOIS: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chamois: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See chamoised as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
noun:  The traditional colour of chamois leather.
noun:  An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
noun:  (cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
adjective:  Chamois-colored.
verb:  (transitive) To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
noun:  Short for chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”). [A soft suede leather, originally from the chamois but now made from sheepskin, used in cleaning and polishing.]

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