- chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather - a soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
--1 is a kind of leather
--1 has particulars: wash leather - chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra - hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
--2 is a kind of goat antelope
--2 is a member of Rupicapra, genus Rupicapra