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chemisettes

chemisettes is the plural of chemisette.

Meaning of chemisette

Noun

chemisette (plural chemisettes)

  1. An item of women's clothing, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment.
    • [Of Italian peasants] And then their dress—the fine plaited chemisette close round the throat—the long gold ear-rings, those indispensables of their toilette—the black velvet boddice, showing the figure to such advantage, laced with gold and coloured silks—the full petticoat—the apron trimmed with...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 122

Questions about chemisettes

What is chemisettes the plural of?
Chemisettes is the plural of chemisette.

Words near chemisettes in the dictionary

  1. chemise lifters
  2. chemised
  3. chemises
  4. chemisette
  5. chemisetted
  6. chemisettes
  7. chemism
  8. chemisms
  9. chemisorb
  10. chemisorbed
  11. chemisorbing

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