chamois vs shamoy

chamois

verb
  • To clean with a chamois leather cloth. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • The traditional colour of chamois leather. 

adj
  • Chamois-colored. 

shamoy

verb
  • To prepare leather by working oil into the skin. 

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