chemise
/ʃəˈmiːz//ʃəˈmiːz/
chemise noun: a loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
Noun
chemise (plural chemises)
- A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- Then he touched her chemise, and though it was made of burlap, to him it seemed the finest and sheerest silk.Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 113
- A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
- A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
- A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
chemise meaning in Tamil and Bengali
chemise in Tamil
- சட்டை
chemise in Bengali
- ঢিলেঢালা মহিলাদের অন্তর্বাস, পোশাক
Forms of chemise
| plural | chemises |
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Origin of chemise
From French chemise, from Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisa, camisia ("shirt, undergarment, nightgown"; whence Old English cemes (“shirt”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”) (whence Old English hemeþe, Old High German hemidi, modern German Hemd (“shirt”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”). Cognate also with Saterland Frisian Hoamd (“shirt”), Dutch hemd (“shirt”), Old English ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.
Words formed from chemise
Phrases with chemise
Words that rhyme with chemise
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about chemise
- What does chemise mean?
- Chemise means a loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- What is chemise in Tamil?
- Chemise in Tamil is சட்டை. See Chemise meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chemise?
- Chemise is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chemise?
- Chemise is pronounced /ʃəˈmiːz/ (US).
- What is the plural of chemise?
- The plural of chemise is chemises.
Words near chemise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chemise (page history and authors); chemise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chemise (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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