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camisoling

camisoling is the present participle and gerund of camisole.

Meaning of camisole

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

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Questions about camisoling

What is camisoling the present participle and gerund of?
Camisoling is the present participle and gerund of camisole.

Words near camisoling in the dictionary

  1. camisiae
  2. camisias
  3. camisole
  4. camisoled
  5. camisoles
  6. camisoling
  7. camite
  8. CAML
  9. camlet
  10. camleted
  11. camlets

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