chammy leather

Questions about chammy leather

What does chammy leather mean?

chammy leather means "a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin".

What is another word for chammy leather?

Close synonyms include chamois, chamois leather, chammy, shammy, shammy leather. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chammy leather a common word?

chammy leather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.