chamois

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.

   “When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.”

2. isim Ellipsis of chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)”).

   “[H]e seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamoy doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth.”

3. isim The traditional colour of chamois leather.
4. isim An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.

   “I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier.”

5. isim A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
6. sıfat Chamois-colored.
7. fiil To clean with a chamois leather cloth.