chamois

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Either of two species of agile goat antelopes (Rupicapra rupicapra or R. pyrenaica) of mountainous regions of Europe and western Asia, having upright horns with backward-hooked tips.
• noun A soft leather made from the hide of these antelopes or of other animals such as deer or sheep.
• noun A piece of such leather or of a fabric or material made to resemble it, used as a polishing or drying cloth or in shirts.
• noun A moderate to grayish yellow.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A very soft leather made from sheepskin; the flesh side of split sheepskin (the grain side being used for fancy leather).
• noun In textile coloring, a name sometimes applied to iron buff because of its resemblance in color to chamois-skin. See iron buff, under buff, n.
• To tan or dress by means of repeated oiling and milling.
• noun A species of goat-like or capriform antelope, Rupicapra tragus, formerly Antilope rupicapra, inhabiting high inaccessible mountains in Europe and western Asia.
• noun A kind of soft leather made from various skins dressed with fish-oil: so called because first prepared from the skin of the chamois. In recent times it has been largely used for warm underclothing. See wash-leather.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.
• noun A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Chamois-coloured.
• noun A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
• noun Usually as “chamois leather” Soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, and other species of goat are alternatively used).
• noun The traditional colour of chamois leather.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
• noun hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips