"Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment".

Immediately behind her came Ce'Nedra, clad only in a very short chemise.

Greenwich's famous clipper ship gets her name from the cutty sark or short chemise (a loose-fitting dress or under garment), which her figure-head wears.

She twisted buttons, playing out lengths of billowing nylene to cover her short indoor chemise, and slid her head into the brusher which automatically attended to her short hair.

When she reached the deserted beach-, she stripped off the hot, restricting gown and walked slowly down the beach toward the ocean, clad only in her short chemise.

In the ladies' retiring room, she changed from Fleet uniform to the layers of white: long pantaloons under a petticoat, a short white chemise.

There were short chemises, long flowing satins, and corselets worn with short, full skirts.

In the poem she wore a linen sark (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was cutty, or in other words far too short.

Her short chemise rose with her efforts and he had a glimpse of a triangle of dark honey hair.

She wore a sort of turban with earrings pendant from her plastic lobes, a loose-fitting short chemise with contours that indicated Earth-positioned falsies, and half-calf suede boots.