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camise

camise is the alternative form of camis.

Meaning of camis

Noun

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 camise

pluralcamises

Questions about camise

What is camise the alternative form of?
Camise is the alternative form of camis.

Words near camise in the dictionary

  1. camisae
  2. Camisard
  3. Camisards
  4. camisas
  5. camisated
  6. camise
  7. camises
  8. camisia
  9. camisiae
  10. camisias
  11. camisole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camise (page history and authors); camis (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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