chemisette

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She wore pink slippers, a heavy sky-blue silk skirt with trousers to match, and a yellow velvet sacque open in front, displaying a lace chemisette and a handsome turquoise necklace.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various

A silk kerchief with a bright pattern of flowers is folded loosely round her neck; her chemisette and skirt are freshly washed and ironed, her hands well tended and her hair gracefully knotted.

From The Choice of Life by Leblanc, Georgette

Below, and two or three inches from the edge of the chemisette, is attached a variously coloured petticoat of very bright hues.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de

On the women we observe the graceful rebozo, the short nagua, and the embroidered chemisette.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

Her robe, made of grey bolting-cloth, was slashed with a red front-piece, that partly covered her white and starched chemisette.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne