chemise

Example Sentences

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The bustles underpin the distinctive chemise à la reine that was popularized by fashion icon Marie Antoinette, with its cloud of white ruffles around a low neckline, sashed at the waist.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

A 36-year-old Algiers native, with a prodigious beard and an ankle-length orange chemise covering his giant build, Omar was well acquainted with the discrepancy between his country’s size and its reputation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

So my cardinal association with the team and its traditions is not the chemise, but the nausea.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2015

Caroline Weber, a fashion historian and professor of French literature at Barnard College, has written about Marie Antoinette’s white muslin chemise dresses, known as gaulles, worn in the late 1770s.

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

Would you have a casket and a ceremony for just a chemise?

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly