In pattering droves of hundreds they trekked in from the camise before there was light enough to shoot by, and nipped once and with precision at the ripest in every bunch. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
His clothes, his beard, his very features have much the appearance that his house has, as if the owner of it were distant on another occupation, and the camise has regained a considerable portion of his clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
(Probably from camise, a black blouse worn as a uniform). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Albanian, in crimson and gold embroidered jacket, and snowy camise, started forward, and holding out his silver-sheathed yataghan commanded the postilions to stop. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
Omer, of Great Ann Street, who wore a knee-length, white camise and a brown suit jacket, allegedly withheld the information between April 5 and April 18 last year. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In Arabic LL camisa became gamīs, kamís ` long shirt 'and was taken into English as camise ` light, loose, long-sleeved shirt, gown, or tunic sometimes worn as an undergarment,' and Modern Greek has hypokámiso. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2] Reference
Others say that it arose from their wearing a white shirt, or camise, over their dress, to enable them to distinguish each other in their night attacks; and that this was not the case, is partly countenanced by the fact that in the course of the insurrection a body of peasant royalists took the field, who designated themselves the. From Wordnik.com. [The Huguenots in France] Reference
In his snowy camise and his shaggy capote?. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
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