chemisette
Example Sentences
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The women were no less conspicuous; draped in the graceful sebazo, the short vogna, and the finely embroidered chemisette.
From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Clark Johnson M.D.
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
He was stopped by the Swiss maid on duty—from the canton of Uri, that one—silver chains and white muslin chemisette.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A jupe of fine embroidered muslin is worn below this, and a chemisette of the same completes the corsage.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
