Suede vs. Chamois — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Suede and Chamois
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Suede
Suede (pronounced (SWAYD)) is a type of leather with a napped finish, commonly used for jackets, shoes, shirts, purses, furniture, and other items. The term comes from the French gants de Suède, which literally means "gloves from Sweden".Suede is made from the underside of the animal skin, which is softer and more pliable than the outer skin layer, though not as durable.
Chamois
The chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Apennines, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Rila - Rhodope massif, Pindus, the northeastern mountains of Turkey, and the Caucasus. The chamois has also been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand.
Suede
Leather with the flesh side rubbed to make a velvety nap
Suede shoes
Chamois
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.
Suede
Leather with a soft napped surface.
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Chamois
A soft leather made from the hide of these antelopes or of other animals such as deer or sheep.
Suede
Fabric made to resemble suede.
Chamois
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.
Suede
A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.
Chamois
(shăm′wä, shămwä′, shămē) A moderate to grayish yellow.
Suede
Made of suede.
Chamois
A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
Suede
(transitive) To make (leather) into suede.
Chamois
The traditional colour of chamois leather.
Suede
(transitive) To finish (fabric) by abrasion, giving it a fibrous surface.
Chamois
An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
Suede
Swedish glove leather, - usually made from lambskins tanned with willow bark. Also used adjectively; as, suede gloves.
Chamois
(cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.
Suede
Leather with a napped surface
Chamois
Chamois-colored.
Suede
A fabric made to resemble suede leather
Chamois
(transitive) To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
Chamois
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.
Chamois
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.
Chamois
A soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin
Chamois
Hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips
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