chemisette
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The full-grown bird is dressed in an exquisite perfection of barred bodice, spotted chemisette, and waved feathers edged with gray on the back.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
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 Eug?ne Sue
She wore a tea-gown of a sort, black and yellow, open over the soft lace of a chemisette, although a dog-collar of tiny golden sequins clasped her throat.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Dresden flowered overdress was of silk, looped above a quilted satin petticoat, and a black velvet bodice laced up over a fine white muslin chemisette.
From Two Little Women by Carolyn Wells
It was a brown and silver silk brocade with thread lace chemisette and under sleeves.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
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