chemisette

A scarlet chemisette added a dash of color and matched her hair.

Her sheer chemise or chemisette has a double ruffled collar, 1823.

These new styles were worn over a waist (blouse) or chemisette and a skirt with a belt at the natural waistline.

Young lady of Holland wears a lace collar and ruffled chemise or chemisette with her dark dress.

Riding habits had fitted jackets with long sleeves, worn over a collared shirt or (more often) chemisette.

She came before us wondrous clad in chemisette of green, As veiled by his leafy screen Pomegranate hides from sight.

A Chemisette (from French, "little chemise") is an article of women's clothing worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment.

Riding habits had become a "uniform" of matching jacket and skirt worn with a high-collared shirt or chemisette, with a top hat and veil.

Matilde Juva-Branca wears a dark morning dress with a lace blouse or chemisette and cuffs and short leather gloves.

Sarah Stanton Blake wears a frilled indoor cap trimmed with sheer ribbon and a high-necked chemise or chemisette under her black dress and scarlet shawl.

Doña Josefa García Solis wears a simple green satin dress with laced short sleeves over a linen chemise or chemisette.

Riding habits consisted of a high-necked, tight-waisted jacket with long snug sleeves, worn over a tall-collared shirt or chemisette, with a long matching petticoat or skirt.

The long pointed bodice is trimmed with horizontal bands of ruching over a chemise or chemisette (or an underlayer styled to look like a chemise), 1853.

The full, pleated skirt would flow nicely around her legs as she moved, and the laced bodice over the white voile chemisette might draw the eye even of a president no longer young.

These bodices generally fastened in back by means of hooks and eyes, but a new fashion for a [jacket] bodice appeared as well, buttoned in front and worn over a chemisette.

Her arms and neck emerged plump and bare from a snowy chemisette; the blue woollen skirt, with all the fullness gathered in front, scanty on the hips and tight across the back, disclosed the provoking action of her walk.

From the early nineteenth century onwards, the term guimpe also described a form of short under-blouse or chemisette which was worn under a pinafore or low cut dress to fill in the neckline and, if sleeved, cover the arms.