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The channels between the chamois panels further enhance the ventilation while preventing bunching.
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Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2025
The removable liner and chamois provide support even through rougher rides, and the longer length can cover your knee pads.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
These subtly slim joggers are the perfect swap for my chamois on the drive back home—soft, stretchy, and stink-resistant, thanks to their 85 percent merino wool construction.
—Lily Ritter, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
This is then gently buffed in using a chamois (a natural leather) tool.
—Tori Crowther, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chamois
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Armadillo, mink, weasel and otter all hold varying degrees of risk associated with consumption.—
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The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.—
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Another possible explanation for the name is that this was also the season when people set beaver traps during the fur trade.—
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What is special about a beaver moon?—
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Areas of South Florida where the snakes have become dominant have seen a 90% to 99% decrease in sightings of mammal such as rabbits, opossums and raccoons.—
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To ensure the materials were safe for biological use, the friction layers was tested on a rabbit’s eye, where the device maintained its charge without irritating.—
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Specifically, state law prohibits salvage of: badger, bobcat, brant, coot, crow, cub bear, duck, elk, fisher, Florida gallinule, geese, marten, moose, otter, snipe, sora rail, spotted fawn deer, Virginia rail, wild turkey, wolf, and woodcock.—
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Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.—
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Several chocolate molds have been found including Fetzer’s signature otter mold.—
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The otters are considered the smallest and most social of the 13 otter species.—
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When birds and badgers are fat in October, a cold winter is expected.—
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Dachshunds, originally bred in Germany for hunting badgers, are known for their persistence, energy and strong prey drive.—
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But despite its many charms, recipes for ermine frosting nearly disappeared after cream cheese frosting surged onto the scene, so many bakers have never heard of it.—
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An example: a steel-gray satin duchess coat lined in white ermine, with the black ermine tails falling from inside of the cuffs.—
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That includes foxes, minks, muskrats, otters, least weasels and bobcats.—
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Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.—
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“Chamois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chamois. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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