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che⋅mise
[shuh-meez] 
–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:
bef. 1050; ME < AF, OF: shirt < LL camīsa linen undergarment, shirt; r. ME kemes, OE cemes < LL camīsa
bef. 1050; ME < AF, OF: shirt < LL camīsa linen undergarment, shirt; r. ME kemes, OE cemes < LL camīsa
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| che·mise (shə-mēz') n.
[Middle English, from Old French, shirt, from Late Latin camisia, from Late Greek kamision, probably of Semitic origin; see qmṣ in Semitic roots.] |
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Chemise
Che*mise"\, n. [F., shirt, fr. LL. camisa, camisia, shirt, thin dress; cf. G. hemd, or OIr. caimmse sort of garment. Cf. Camis.]1. A shift, or undergarment, worn by women. 2. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
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Language Translation for : chemise
Spanish:
carpeta,
German:
der Schnellhefter,
Japanese:
紙ばさみ
chemise
c.1050, cemes, from O.Fr., from L.L. camisia "shirt, tunic" (c.400 C.E.), first used as a soldier's word, probably via Gaulish, from P.Gmc. *khamithjan (cf. Ger. hemd "shirt"), from PIE base *kem- "to cover, cloak." The Fr. form took over after c.1200.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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chemise
loose, shirtlike garment worn by women in the European Middle Ages under their gowns (also called a chemise). The smock later became a loose, yoked, shirtlike outer garment of coarse linen, used to protect the clothes; it was worn, for example, by fieldworkers in Europe.
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