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camis

/ˈkæmiz/

camis is the plural of cami.

Meaning of cami

Noun

cami (plural camis)

  1. (colloquial) A camisole.
    • He noticed how she had a little black leather under-the-arm purse and a cami and a trucker hat. It was as though she had time-traveled from early-aughts Kitson.2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN

Noun

IPA/ˈkæmɪs/

camis (plural camises)

  1. (obsolete) A light, loose dress or robe.
    • All in a camis light of purple silk.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2

Forms of camis

pluralcamises
alternative formcamese
alternative formcamiso
alternative formcamus

Origin of camis

See chemise.

Questions about camis

What does camis mean?
Camis means a light, loose dress or robe.
What is camis the plural of?
Camis is the plural of cami.
What part of speech is camis?
Camis is a noun.
How do you pronounce camis?
Camis is pronounced /ˈkæmiz/.
What is the plural of camis?
The plural of camis is camises.

Words near camis in the dictionary

  1. camionettes
  2. camions
  3. Camira
  4. Camire
  5. Camires
  6. camis
  7. camisa
  8. camisa de chino
  9. camisa de chinos
  10. camisade
  11. camisades

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camis (page history and authors); cami (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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