Meanings
- not comparableHaving or wearing a chemisette.
The collar seemed to be left off to introduce a narrow white chemisetted effect slightly puffed of white batiste inside the neck.
1919 June 4, Martha Goode Anderson, “White Dress Has Come Into Its Own”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 180, number 155, Philadelphia, Pa., page 112 more examples
[…]a little red-skirted, silver-laced, black-bodiced, snow-sleeved, and chemisetted bergère, leading out or bringing home her troop of goats;[…]
1874 September 26, [Emily Jolly], “Safely Married”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XII, number 304, London: […] Messrs. Chapman & Hall, […], chapter XXXI, page 572The low, unsavoury arcades that line it are damp with melted snow, and thronged with hulking Oberländers and their black-bodiced, white-chemisetted womankind.
1903, Horace Rumbold, “Berne, 1864–1866”, in Recollections of a Diplomatist, volume II, London: Edward Arnold, pages 161–162
Origin
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