Meaning

1 senses

  1. (not comparable)Chamois-colored.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Do you see the chamois?

    ruТы видишь серну? — marafon

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  2. Chamois move in leaps.

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  3. Chamois can live for 25 years.

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  4. Chamois almost never drink water.

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  5. Look, a chamois!

    deSchau, eine Gämse! — Adelpa

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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD,

Borrowed from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Compare also Old High German gamiza (“chamois”) (whence modern German Gämse).

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chamberchambermaidchameleonchampchampagneA2

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