chamois-skin

Rubber gloves are worn in making the toilet, and they are cared for by an ointment of glycerine and rubbed dry with chamois-skin or cotton flannel.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

His rough jacket, made by the tailor last autumn, and therefore too new to be worn on a less special occasion, is short and loose enough to leave ample space for the display of his _rauge_, or broad leather belt of softest chamois-skin, worked in scrolls surrounding his name, with split peacock quills, no little resembling Indian handicraft.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Almira Jane put on her waterproof and rubbers, and attended to the hens and the geese; and in order to pay her back for doing his work, Master Sunshine polished the silver spoons and forks with whitening, and rubbed them with a chamois-skin until they fairly gleamed.

Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

Coming to the open door, however, he found her only busy in rubbing the furniture with a bit of chamois-skin.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

Then she opened her trunk, and taking thence the brass match-box and chamois-skin bag added their contents to the pile.

McTeague 1920

The brass match-safe and the chamois-skin bag were there.

McTeague 1920

Upon every reference to that little hoard in the brass match-safe and chamois-skin bag at the bottom of her trunk,

McTeague 1920

"Couldn't save sixty dollars much easier than that," and she had added the hundred and thirty to the little hoard in the chamois-skin bag and brass match-box in the bottom of her trunk.

McTeague 1920

As for Trina, the more her husband stormed, the tighter she drew the strings of the little chamois-skin bag that she hid at the bottom of her trunk underneath her bridal dress.

McTeague 1920

Groping beneath a pile of dresses he found the chamois-skin bag, the little brass match-box, and, at the very bottom, carefully thrust into one corner, the canvas sack crammed to the mouth with twenty-dollar gold pieces.

McTeague 1920