chemisetted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From chemisette +‎ -ed.

Adjective[edit]

chemisetted (not comparable)

  1. Having or wearing a chemisette.
    • 1874 September 26, [Emily Jolly], “Safely Married”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XII, number 304, London: [] Messrs. Chapman & Hall, [], chapter XXXI, page 572:
      [] a little red-skirted, silver-laced, black-bodiced, snow-sleeved, and chemisetted bergère, leading out or bringing home her troop of goats; []
    • 1903, Horace Rumbold, “Berne, 1864–1866”, in Recollections of a Diplomatist, volume II, London: Edward Arnold, pages 161–162:
      The low, unsavoury arcades that line it are damp with melted snow, and thronged with hulking Oberländers and their black-bodiced, white-chemisetted womankind.
    • 1919 June 4, Martha Goode Anderson, “White Dress Has Come Into Its Own”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 180, number 155, Philadelphia, Pa., page 11:
      The collar seemed to be left off to introduce a narrow white chemisetted effect slightly puffed of white batiste inside the neck.