Definitions for chamois



Overview of noun chamois

The noun chamois has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather

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

2. chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra

(hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips)

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