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Examples
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In New York City, the garment industry has long been known as the "schmatta" trade.
Bruce Raynor: Upcoming HBO Documentary Views Economic Crisis Through a New Lens 2009
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Gilt Groupe and its barrage of daily Internet flash sales has so rapidly changed the way consumers approach shopping and become such a part of our daily routine that it seems inconceivable that a New Yorker — especially one who traffics on the sidelines of the schmatta business — wouldn't be aware of it.
Surviving Fashion Week: Dinner for 40 Marshall Heyman 2011
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"I could have worn a schmatta," said the jeweler Hilary Tisch, there with her pal Nicole Richie.
Anatomy of an L.A. Museum's Fall Affair Marshall Heyman 2011
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Schmatta is the Yiddish word for rags in somewhat of a sad shape, as in, "wouldn't be caught dead in that schmatta."
Kelly O'Reilly: Political Sartoria: Nanette Lepore for Kirsten Gillibrand Kelly O'Reilly 2010
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Schmatta is the Yiddish word for rags in somewhat of a sad shape, as in, "wouldn't be caught dead in that schmatta."
Kelly O'Reilly: Political Sartoria: Nanette Lepore for Kirsten Gillibrand 2010
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While I had assumed that this was to protect her against rare European metalhead-borne illnesses, I now realize that it could have been she who was the carrier, and that the inferior quality of her off-brand silk schmatta had allowed her to pass it on to me.
Street Cred's Not Dead: Rebellion and Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2010
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It's an easy fit - great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest "guess who's coming to dinner" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.
Tom Gregory: Brokeback Mountain Reclaims the American West 2009
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It\'s an easy fit - great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest \ "guess who\'s coming to dinner\" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.
Tom Gregory: Brokeback Mountain Reclaims the American West 2009
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I can almost ... why, yes, I can almost see her wearing a schmatta in the desert, carrying pails of water to her quaint and dusty village!
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It\'s an easy fit - great goes with great, but if clothes could talk, their arrival was the biggest \ "guess who\'s coming to dinner\" moment in Los Angeles schmatta history.
Tom Gregory: Brokeback Mountain Reclaims the American West 2009
chained_bear commented on the word schmatta
I've seen this spelled shmatta, schmata, and shmata. I like this one the best, because it's Germanic/Yiddish spelling. Or at least it looks more like that than the others do.
October 18, 2007
trivet commented on the word schmatta
also, schmatte...
October 18, 2007