(Usually as “chamois leather”) Soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used)
A short-horned goat-antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra
hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips a soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin