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chemise
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Definition:a woman's loose-fitting shirtlike undergarment
painting: By Francesco Hayez, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1514278
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a girl in a white chemise, dressing jacket, and nightcap.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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Before Albertine obeyed and allowed me to take off her shoes, I opened her chemise. Her two little upstanding breasts were so round that they seemed not so much to be an integral part of her body as to have ripened there like fruit;
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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One winter's day it happened that the Queen, entirely undressed, was about to put on her chemise. Madame Campan was holding it unfolded. The Lady of Honor came in, made haste to take off her gloves and took the chemise.
Edward Jackson Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution
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