Definitions for chemises

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chemises che·mise

Spelling: [shuh-meez]

IPA: /ʃəˈmiz/

Chemises is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in chemises (ceehimss).

Definitions for chemises

noun

1. a woman's loose-fitting, shirtlike undergarment.
2. (in women's fashions) a dress designed to hang straight from the shoulders and fit loosely at the waist, sometimes more tightly at the hip.
3. a revetment for an earth embankment.

Origin of chemises

before 1050; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French: shirt Late Latin camīsa linen undergarment, shirt; replacing Middle English kemes, Old English cemes Late Latin camīsa

Examples for chemises

She wanted to make a chemise to replace the only one which she possessed.

Up went the chemise to the end of the pole, and Smallbones grinned as he hoisted it.

I saw Leah enter my room in her chemise and a light petticoat.

Whether she was in her chemise or in full dress did not matter.

I remember that she answered me excitedly, ‘Madame, you talk to me of quitting a passion as I would a chemise.’

Then she told her how she had made herself a chemise and the trouble she had had in cutting it.

So long as she was not beneath it, she would have gone off willingly without a chemise to her back.

Why, 'tis no more than a loose waistcoat and a chemise unbuttoned at the neck.

I even let her keep on her chemise and stockings, to my own disadvantage.

That chemise was not hers, she would have nothing to do with it.