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▪ I. † ˈshambo Sc. Obs.
Also 8 shamboe, 9 shambeau.
[? Corruption of chamois n.]
attrib. in shambo leather, chamois leather (chamois n. 2). Also in shambo skin.
1612Sc. Bk. Rates in Halyburton's Ledger (1867) 310 Gloves of shambo lether the dozen pair xlviii s. a1706in J. Watson's Collect. Sc. Poems i. 28 No windy flowrish'd flying Feathers, No sweet permusted shambo Leathers. 1755in Macgill Old Ross-sh. (1909) 154, 5 large Shamboe skins for lyning breeches and pockets 7s 6d. 1807J. Hall Trav. Scot. II. 516 The miniature figure of a man made of stuffed shambeau leather.
▪ II. shambo, -ok
obs. forms of sjambok.
1810Barrington's Voy. N.S. Wales I. 186 These sort of whips, which they call shambos, are most horrid instruments. |