The house is built dretful shammy.
"Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition"
Marietta Holley
Old Russell with a smeared shammy rag burnished again his gem, turned it and held it at the point of his Moses' beard.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
The article known in commerce as chamois or shammy leather is also called wash-leather.
"The American Woman's Home"
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe