chemise

Example Sentences

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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

A man’s shirt, une chemise, is feminine, but a woman’s shirt, un chemisier, is masculine.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

In the first, my 76-year-old father is standing in a hospital lobby in a sheer, sleeveless chemise and red skirt.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016

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

A slim woman dressed in the fashion of the time: long, loose chemise, narrow shoes with sharply pointed toes and high spiked heels.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin