She came before us wondrous clad in chemisette of green. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Got to the house she put me on a clean chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
Can hardly bear my chemisette for weakness and for pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
To this chemisette are added immensely wide short sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Cambric chemisette, made quite up to the throat, and cambric under-sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Our shirt, chemise, chemisette, etc., was unknown to the Ancients of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
She had no petticoat, and her white chemisette ended two inches below the waist line. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
A wide open V from the shoulder down to the peak displayed an embroidered white Swiss chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
Corsets are not yet the fashion, but a chemisette, which just covers her breast, and a starched neckcloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
On me thou layest load of love the heaviest while I feel So feeble grown that under weight of chemisette I swerve. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The housekeeper listened to the praise of her domestic virtues with eyes immovably fixed on her elegant chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
The chemisette is of lace, to match that upon the skirt, and is fastened at the throat by a simple knot of pink ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
The women were no less conspicuous; draped in the graceful sebazo, the short vogna, and the finely embroidered chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
The chemisette is composed of alternate rows of narrow plaits and insertion, and is edged with muslin embroidery to correspond. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
Ilda, too, in her red bodice and white chemisette, and her pretty, shy ways, was almost as attractive as the birds or beasts they were seeking. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
So feeble grown that under weight of chemisette I swerve. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
A little laced bodice and white chemisette completed the dress. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Social Season] Reference
She was as heroic and immovable in her high-necked chemisette as a sentry in his box. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
She wore a close-fitting muslin chemisette, buttoned to the throat with gold buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
Pierrette wore a stuff gown with a chemisette, Bathilde made the velvet of hers undulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Celibates] Reference
On the women we observe the graceful rebozo, the short nagua, and the embroidered chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
She wore a robe of emerald Genoa velvet, with an open bodice, laced over a chemisette of fine-wrought Mechlin lace. From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
Lillian looked charming in a train gown of old rose, with a low, square neck showing a delicate chemisette of fine lace. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
He was stopped by the Swiss maid on duty -- from the canton of Uri, that one -- silver chains and white muslin chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference
But, my dear, suppose you wear a chemisette next time, if you haven't authority enough over him to prevent his doing it again!. From Wordnik.com. [Miss or Mrs?] Reference
She wore a gown of cambric, covered with narrow pink stripes, and cut low at the throat, so as to display a muslin chemisette. From Wordnik.com. [The Country Doctor] Reference
Her round, plump, childish form is shown to advantage by the trim blue basque, laced in front, over a chemisette of white linen. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I] Reference
She wore an open dressing-gown, that showed between the shawl facings of her bodice a pleated chemisette with three gold buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference
“collar” and “habit-shirt” and sweet “chemisette.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East] Reference
A transparent muslin chemisette with gold-embroidered garlands. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
A flaming red "nagua," broidered chemisette, and reboso -- showed that she belonged to the poorer class of citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico] Reference
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