chamois vs sackcloth

chamois

noun
  • An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather. 

  • A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra. 

  • A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle. 

  • The traditional colour of chamois leather. 

verb
  • To clean with a chamois leather cloth. 

adj
  • Chamois-colored. 

sackcloth

noun
  • A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks. 

  • Garments worn as an act of penance. 

adj
  • Made of sackcloth. 

How often have the words chamois and sackcloth occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )