52 examples of chemise in sentences

The men wear wide drawers with the pink shirt over them; the women have a chemise reaching to the calf of the leg, dirty and coarse, an apron round the waist, sometimes so scanty or so ragged that it will not meet, and a handkerchief tied in a slovenly manner on the head.

" The husband also asks, in the presence of this fresh-smelling woman, whether the odour comes from the skin or from the chemise.

"Every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odourous her chemise.

body clothes; linen; hickory shirt [U.S.]; shirt, sark^, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt; bedgown^, sac de nuit [Fr.].

It was true; Clotilde was there, undressed like himself, her bare feet covered by canvas slippers, her legs bare, her arms bare, her shoulders bare, clad only in her chemise and a short skirt.

The poorer women clothe themselves in a saya and in a so-called chemise, which is so extremely short that it frequently does not even reach the first fold of the former.

Their clothing is the same as in Luzon; but the women wear no tapis, only a camisa (a short chemise, hardly covering the breast), and a saya, mostly of coarse, stiff guinara, which forms ugly folds, and when not colored black is very transparent.

As the French say, "Il change sa nationalité comme je change de chemise," and is to be bought by the highest bidder.

A very short white silk chemise was to be seen under the corset.

The corset fell back at every quick movement; the silk or gauze chemise, which scarcely reached over the breast, dragged up so high that the whole body might be seen as far as the loins.

Gambling is the great resource of the ignorant, so that frequently those who have only a few pence per day to exist on, are obliged to fast entirely, having anticipated their allowance; many even pawn their coats, and walk about en chemise!

"Quand on a tout perdu et qu'on a plus déspoir On prend l'devant sa chemise pour sa farie un mouchoir.

Lovaina, in one of her sixty bright gowns, a white chemise beneath, her feet bare, sat enthroned.

With a knot or two she arranged the pareu so that it was like a chemise, coming to a foot above her knees and covering her bosom.

The chemise of transparent muslin, or robe à la Poliynae, chapeau de paille à la bergere, tied down with a lilac ribbon, with "Scarf loosely flowing, hair as free," gave an air of sylph-like simplicity to one, whose features, though beautiful, were marked by an expression foreign to simplicity, evincing that taste, not sentiment, presided over her toilet, and that, "chez elle, un beau desordre fut l'effet de l'art.

My dresses was made out of cotton stripes and my chemise was made out of flannelette and my under pants was made out of homespun.

When they got beyond the reach of the firing, the Indians stript the old lady of everything except her chemise, and in that plight carried her into the British camp.

This man would be taking a liking to a snuff-box that he had inherited; and that gentlewoman might conceit a favourite chemise that had descended to her.

Even the corner of her chemise, which shows through her transparent blouse, has "Babykins" embroidered on it.

The pink chemise.

[* Note: Anglice, Chemise.

[Footnote: Le haubert et le haubergeon (sorte de haubert plus léger et moins lourd) étoient une sorte de chemise en mailles de fer, laquelle descendoit jusqu'à micuisse.

The girls at the theater told me that she was very poor, and that underneath her black velveteen dress, which she wore summer and winter, she had nothing but a pair of stockings and a chemise.

The whole corps commanded by General Beaupuy was crushed by a terrible fire, He himself, after withstanding for two or three hours with 2000 or 3000 men all the attacks of the royalists, was disabled by a shot, and fell, crying out, "'Laissez-moi , et portez à mes grenadiers ma chemise sanglante'."

She had nothing on but a short, thin chemise.

52 examples of  chemise  in sentences