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Examples
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I can no longer pick out some old "schmata": for my twins to wear to school.
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I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire Mara Gibbs 2011
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I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire Mara Gibbs 2011
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I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire Mara Gibbs 2011
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I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire Mara Gibbs 2011
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I like to call him the Mayor of Mayfair because there are more restaurants in Mayfair that have been scooped up by this handsome and debonair man who started out in the "schmata business," Yiddish for the rag trade.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In London, England, Richard Caring's Empire Mara Gibbs 2011
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Thus protected, the child then emerges on the leeward side of the bus where she is collected by a doting mother in a schmata.
Archive 2010-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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I see this thing as a result of a little game called ‘pin the doiley on the schmata’
Regretsy – Plan B 2010
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Thus protected, the child then emerges on the leeward side of the bus where she is collected by a doting mother in a schmata.
Going by the Book: Signs from Above BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Last week I was cruising through a Facebook friend's wall postings and came across a friend of his wearing the tackiest of holiday sweaters: a bright red schmata adorned with embroidered snowflakes and a quartet of Frosty the Snowmen.
dontcry commented on the word schmata
a rag
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October 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word schmata
it's more often spelled schmatta, I think... though Yiddish spelling is hardly standardized...
October 4, 2008
mollusque commented on the word schmata
Schmatte is the spelling used in OED2 and RHD2. Schmata is the commonest spelling in a Google search, although some of the hits are for "data, schmata".
October 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word schmata
Yes, that more common spelling is noted on the schmatta page, I think...
October 4, 2008