Chamois vs Sham - What's the difference?
chamois | sham |
A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; .
Soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used).
The traditional colour of chamois leather.
Chamois-coloured.
Intended to deceive; false.
counterfeit; unreal
* Jowett
A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
Trickery, hoaxing.
A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
A decorative cover for a pillow.
To deceive, cheat, lie.
* L'Estrange
To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
* L'Estrange
To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
As a noun chamois
is a short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern europe;.As an adjective chamois
is chamois-coloured.As a proper noun sham is
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English
(wikipedia chamois)Noun
(chamois)Derived terms
* chammy * shammyAdjective
(-)See also
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----sham
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was only a sham wedding: they didn't care much for one another but wanted their parents to stop hassling them.
- They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.
Synonyms
* mock * See alsoAntonyms
* genuine * sincere * realNoun
(en noun)- The time-share deal was a sham .
- A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
Derived terms
* shamateurSee also
* pillow shamVerb
(shamm)- Fooled and shammed into a conviction.
- We must have a care that we do not sham fallacies upon the world for current reason.