Meanings
nounschmatte (plural schmattes)
plural schmattes
- alternativeAlternative spelling of shmatte.
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A night in April. We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte. Schmatte, along with "merch" for merchandise and "matchy-matchy," as in "That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy," is among the words I have picked up at Mlle.
1995, Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, when I was young, page 139
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APA
schmatte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmatte
MLA
“schmatte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmatte. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schmatte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schmatte.
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