chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather
(noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chammy (plural chammies)
Alternative form of shammy
chammy (third-person singular simple present chammies, present participle chammying, simple past and past participle chammied)
Alternative form of shammy
Source: Wiktionary
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
