Chemisette

Word CHEMISETTE
Character 10
Hyphenation chem i sette
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chemisette"

What do we mean by chemisette?

A short sleeveless bodice, formerly worn by women. noun

A blouse front formerly worn by women; a dickey. noun

A garment for covering the neck, made of some light fabric, as lace, muslin, or cambric, and worn under a waist, especially under one cut low at the throat. noun

In medieval fortification, a chemise covering a very small part of the main wall. noun

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast. noun

An item of women’s clothing, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment. noun

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The word "chemisette" in example sentences

She came before us wondrous clad in chemisette of green, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Aldclyffe had pulled off a kind of chemisette of Brussels net, drawn high above the throat, which she had worn with her evening dress as ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

Can hardly bear my chemisette for weakness and for pain: ❋ Unknown (2006)

On me thou layest load of love the heaviest while I feel So feeble grown that under weight of chemisette I swerve. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our shirt, chemise, chemisette, etc., was unknown to the Ancients of Europe. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She wore a white muslin dress, a rose-colored sash, and rose-colored ribbons in the pretty cap on her head; her chemisette was moulded so deliciously by her shoulders and the loveliest rounded contours, that the sight of her awakened an irresistible desire of possession in the depths of the heart. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A pearl-gray dress with crimson trimmings, made with a long waist, modestly outlined the bust and covered the shoulders, still rather thin, with a chemisette which left nothing to view but the first curves of the throat where it joined the shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His knee thrust between her legs, her chemisette was yanked down. ❋ JOHANNA LINDSEY (2005)

Lillian looked charming in a train gown of old rose, with a low, square neck showing a delicate chemisette of fine lace. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She sighed, and, walking back to the glass, wearily loosened the fastenings of her dress; wearily removed the studs from the chemisette beneath it, and put them on the chimney-piece. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He called her “my wife”, tutoyed [7] her, asked for her of everyone, looked for her everywhere, and often he dragged her into the yards, where he could be seen from far between the trees, putting his arm around her waist, and walking half-bending over her, ruffling the chemisette of her bodice with his head. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The housekeeper listened to the praise of her domestic virtues with eyes immovably fixed on her elegant chemisette. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Mrs. Lecount; they were tenderly interested in everything she looked at — in Magdalen, in the toad on the rock-work, in the back-yard view from the window; in her own plump fair hands, — which she rubbed softly one over the other while she spoke; in her own pretty cambric chemisette, which she had a habit of looking at complacently while she listened to others. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The student could not move hand or foot, but stood bound as in a sack, when the Waiwode's daughter approached him boldly, placed upon his head her glittering diadem, hung her earrings on his lips, and flung over him a transparent muslin chemisette with gold-embroidered garlands. ❋ Unknown (1952)

She has a pearl necklace and earrings, with a high plaited chemisette up to the necklace; and four rows of pearls, with a yellow bow, round the sleeve. ❋ Various (N/A)

A wide open V from the shoulder down to the peak displayed an embroidered white Swiss chemisette. ❋ Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (N/A)

Got to the house she put me on a clean chemisette. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

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