chamois leather

1. 1.

   a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin

   Synonymschamoischammychammy leathershammyshammy leather

   Broaderleather

   Narrowerwash leather

Questions about chamois leather

What does chamois leather mean?

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

What is another word for chamois leather?

Close synonyms include chamois, chammy, chammy leather, 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 chamois leather a common word?

chamois 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.