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camisole

UK/ˈkamɪsəʊl/

camisole noun: a short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.

camisole: a short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée
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Noun

camisole (plural camisoles)

  1. A short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.
    • A visible bra strap, a bit of camisole peeking, a partially exposed thong: Innerwear slinks into a new role2004, Marisa Kula, “Lingerie Sashays into Outerwear”, in The Oregonian
  2. (dated) A straitjacket.
  3. (historical) A light jacket with sleeves.

Verb

camisole (third-person singular simple present camisoles, present participle camisoling, simple past and past participle camisoled)

  1. (dated) To straitjacket.
    • If, in viewing the question from its sentimental aspect, you deplore the insult offered to manly dignity by camisoling a fellow-creature, let me ask if this manly dignity is not already compromised by the fact of patients covering themselves with ordure, denuding and mutilating themselves and...1881, Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica N. Y., for the Year 1880, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, […], pages 54–55
    • He believes it better to camisole a patient than to seclude him.1882, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 821

camisole meaning in Bengali, Malay and Indonesian

camisole in Bengali

ঢিলেঢালা মহিলাদের অন্তর্বাস, ছোট জ্যাকেট

camisole in Malay

undergarment
kamsiol

camisole in Indonesian

undergarment
kamisol

Synonyms of camisole

Forms of camisole

Noun
pluralcamisoles
Verb
third-person singular presentcamisoles
present participlecamisoling
past participlecamisoled
pastcamisoled

Origin of camisole

From French camisole, from Old Occitan camisola, diminutive of camisa (“shirt”).

Words formed from camisole

Questions about camisole

What does camisole mean?
Camisole means a short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.
What is camisole in Bengali?
Camisole in Bengali is ঢিলেঢালা মহিলাদের অন্তর্বাস, ছোট জ্যাকেট. See Camisole meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is camisole?
Camisole can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce camisole?
Camisole is pronounced /ˈkamɪsəʊl/ (UK).
What is the plural of camisole?
The plural of camisole is camisoles.

Words near camisole in the dictionary

  1. camise
  2. camises
  3. camisia
  4. camisiae
  5. camisias
  6. camisole
  7. camisoled
  8. camisoles
  9. camisoling
  10. camite
  11. CAML

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camisole (page history and authors); camisole (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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