Chamois [noun]

The outside, also, well polished with sweet oil and stale milk, then enveloped in chamois leather.

The sight of the fellow wandering about a garden bareheaded and gloved in yellow chamois leather had begun to affect my nerves.

With weak unsteady steps he paced his room, and looked at the old Swiss chamois-gun above the door.

You will be glad to hear that Sir John's chamois leather waistcoat fits me quite well.

The chamois were very wary,—they would send one to look out; but the hunter must be still more wary,—put them off the scent.

Uncle was, as I have said, one of the most successful chamois-hunters in the neighborhood, and also one of the best guides.

But there poured upon him an overpowering smell of carrion; putrefying lambs, chamois, and birds lay here torn to pieces.

He was now hunting chamois, but she was at home, and there sat with her the young Englishman with the yellow whiskers.

Mr. Macdonald was ardently helping Francesca, who can climb like a chamois, but would doubtless rather be assisted.

Fred took only a couple of paces for a start, when he bounded across the chasm with the ease of a chamois.