Chemisettes

Word CHEMISETTES
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Definitions and meanings of "Chemisettes"

What do we mean by chemisettes?

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

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The word "chemisettes" in example sentences

Henry IV of France, passed reverently beneath the reliquary containing this veil, which, until the end of the eithteenth century, was considered a chemise, and "chemisettes", emblematic of this veil, were worn on the breast. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The fleshy, red neck should be softened with powder and discreetly veiled in chemisettes of chiffon and delicate net. ❋ Dorothy Quigley (N/A)

All fashionable promenade and evening dresses being cut with an open corsage and loose sleeves, the chemisettes and wristbands become of the greatest importance. ❋ Various (N/A)

There were the "Laufen" foaming down the valley under the dining room windows, there were the Swiss waitresses in short petticoats and velvet bodices and white chemisettes, and at the dinner table, sitting precisely opposite, there were the Malts. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Perhaps it was partly the effect of the light, but the young girls in their straight dark bodices, with flowered handkerchief-chemisettes, full blue skirts -- pieced with pale-tinted stuff from waist to hips -- and those flying, winged caps, looked angelic. ❋ Karl Anderson (1901)

I, being far from the rostrum, had a good view of the backs of their blouses, chemisettes, and bodices. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

In his wardrobe he had displayed on forms, some six or eight corsets and chemisettes -- "corset-covers," as he designated them. ❋ James Weir (1881)

The women wore very high straw hats in the form of a broken cone, which looked like overturned buckets, bound round with long blue ribbons fluttering in the wind; their dresses were dark-colored, open at the throat, revealing white embroidered chemisettes; their arms were bare to the elbow; and two enormous gold earrings of the most eccentric shape projected almost over their cheeks. ❋ Edmondo De Amicis (1877)

He had already saved two chemisettes which he found in the midst of some high thistles. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

But another sudden gust of wind came up, and there was a perfect flight into the distance of cambric collars and cuffs, of neckerchiefs and chemisettes of muslin, which, as they disappeared, seemed like a flock of white birds knocked about by the tempest. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

When shaken by the wind over the heads of the passers-by, these articles of white under-clothing (_chemisettes_), flanked by sundry masculine nether-garments, presented a _tableau_, it is said, in the highest degree picturesque. ❋ Unknown (1868)

About eleven o'clock our host's family assembled in front of the hut; the women and young girls were dressed in red or blue petticoats, with their shoulders covered with embroidered cotton chemisettes: and the younger boys were clothed in a sort of blouse without sleeves. ❋ Lucien Biart (1863)

Both have white chemisettes, but the common water-ouzel ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

She heard everything about her singing, and glanced with a glad eye at the women in chemisettes at the windows, the men in their shirt sleeves in the little gardens, the mothers on the doorsteps with their little ones between their legs. ❋ Edmond De Goncourt (1859)

The women looked not less picturesque in their bright naguas, snowy chemisettes, and small satin slippers. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

I suppose they would hardly like to send a few to Haworth to be looked at; indeed, if they cost very much, it would be useless, but if they are reasonable and they would send them, I should like to see them; and also some chemisettes of small size (the full woman's size don't fit me), both of simple style for every day and good quality for best. "...." ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

They wear short full skirts of black stuff, fine white chemisettes with long sleeves, and coloured bodices, lightly fastened in front with silk cords or silver buckles. ❋ Ida Pfeiffer (1827)

They have lovely gray chemisettes, striped gray bodices, and green bills and feet; a little orange stain at the root of the green bill, and the bright red iris of the eye have wonderful effect in warming the color of the whole bird: and with beautiful fancy Mr. Gould has put the Stellaris among yellow water-lilies to set off its gray; and a yellow butterfly with blue and red spots, and black-speckled wings (Papilio Machaon), to harmonize both. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

"Yes, sinamei chemisettes, or waists, have very wide sleeves, but are short to the elbow. ❋ John Stuart Thomson (1909)

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