camisole

plural camisoles

1. A short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.

   A visible bra strap, a bit of camisole peeking, a partially exposed thong: Innerwear slinks into a new role

   2004, Marisa Kula, “Lingerie Sashays into Outerwear”, in The Oregonian

   Synonyms: underbodice, negligee

2. datedA straitjacket.
3. historicalA light jacket with sleeves.

present singular third person camisoles · participle present camisoling · participle past camisoled · past camisoled

1. datedTo straitjacket.

   He believes it better to camisole a patient than to seclude him.

   1882, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 821

   2 more examples

   If, in viewing the question from its sentimental aspect, you deplore the insult offered to manly dignity by camisoling a fellow-creature, let me ask if this manly dignity is not already compromised by the fact of patients covering themselves with ordure, denuding and mutilating themselves and striking those about them?

   1881, Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica N. Y., for the Year 1880, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, […], pages 54–55

   She had been camisoled, and fastened in bed, with “ties of muslin cloth about fifteen inches wide,” and left alone for the night, during which, her struggles “had so increased the pressure of the ties as to produce considerable swelling” and increased discoloration.

   1884, The American Psychological Journal, volume II, page 164