Definitions for chemise

chemise che·mise

Spelling: [shuh-meez]
IPA: /ʃəˈmiz/

Chemise is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in chemise (ceehims).

Definitions for chemise

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 chemise

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 chemise

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for chemise
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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