UrineTown!
As my faithful readers all know, I'm in UrineTown at MIT. We just had our first rehearsal tonight. It was fun, but it's going to be insane!! As in, we only have two weeks (plus tech week) to do everything. For a very complicated musical with difficult music. But it's a fun group of people and I definitely already feel more comfortable with the
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shammy \Sham"my\, n. [F. chamious a chamois, shammy leather. See
{Chamois}.]
1. (Zool.) The chamois.
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2. A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin
of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the
sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See {Shamoying}.
[Written also {chamois}, {shamoy}, and {shamois}.]
[1913 Webster] Shamois
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Chamois \Cham"ois\ (sh[a^]m"m[y^] or sh[.a]*moi"; 277), n. [F.
chamois, prob. fr. OG. gamz, G. gemse.]
1. (Zool.) 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.
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2. 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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chamois
n 1: a soft suede leather formerly from the sheep of the chamois
antelope but now from sheepskin [syn: {chamois leather},
{chammy}, {chammy leather}, {shammy}, {shammy leather}]
2: hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns
with backward-hooked tips [syn: {Rupicapra rupicapra}]
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