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The heels are lined with chamois leather and the toes with linen; the soles are pigskin.
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Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
For supreme comfort while riding, choose cycling jerseys, bibs, and shorts from Mission Workshop—you’ll love the soft feel, extra pockets, and protective chamois.
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Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Keep your eyes peeled—and binoculars handy—for goat-like chamois, bearded vultures, and beavers against the stunning backdrop of Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, and the steep Justistal Valley below.
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AFAR Media,
18 July 2025
The channels between the chamois panels further enhance the ventilation while preventing bunching.
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Kevin Brouillard,
Travel + Leisure,
3 July 2025
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Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
For supreme comfort while riding, choose cycling jerseys, bibs, and shorts from Mission Workshop—you’ll love the soft feel, extra pockets, and protective chamois.
—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Keep your eyes peeled—and binoculars handy—for goat-like chamois, bearded vultures, and beavers against the stunning backdrop of Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, and the steep Justistal Valley below.
—
AFAR Media,
18 July 2025
The channels between the chamois panels further enhance the ventilation while preventing bunching.
—
Kevin Brouillard,
Travel + Leisure,
3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chamois
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Sonoma County Animal Services said its officers responded to the resident's call and discovered that the otter was actually a tiny baby American mink.
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The American mink likely wandered into the resident's yard from the riverbank, according to the Sonoma County Animal Service.
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There’s the yellow, blue-nosed beaver Norb (Nick Bakay) — witty, sophisticated, sarcastic, and opinionated.
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In recent years, however, beaver reintroductions have started to become more popular in the country because these semi-aquatic rodents are amazing natural engineers.
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Plants tolerate a range of soils and are unbothered by rabbits or deer.
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There’s a bug-eyed rabbit, a blue donkey and several variations of what appear to be skulls.
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The ranch also may be home to threatened or endangered species, including Canada lynx, American marten, snowshoe hare and Gunnison’s prairie dog.
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Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines.
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There’s an art gallery, the Birds of Prey Center, an otter exhibit, and Desertarium, which features turtles, snakes, lizards, frogs, and more.
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Here's what to know about Splash the otter.
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Both minks and otters are mustelids, a family of carnivores that also includes badgers, weasels, and wolverines.
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Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.
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Courtesy of Julie Montagu She’d found the Earl’s coronation robe and waistcoat, complete with ermine.
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Further complicating the mustelids’ lexical family tree, the Haida ermine, found on islands off the Pacific Northwest coast, was also once considered a subspecies of the common stoat, but is now recognized as its own species.
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Gassing of the muskrat runs, or burrows, was also tried.
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In fact, one quite successful muskie artificial lure is fashioned of fur in the shape of a small muskrat, and has a black soft-plastic tail.
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“Chamois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chamois. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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