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chemise

[shuh-meez] / ʃəˈmiz /


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The bustles underpin the distinctive chemise à la reine that was popularized by fashion icon Marie Antoinette, with its cloud of white ruffles around a low neckline, sashed at the waist.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

A 36-year-old Algiers native, with a prodigious beard and an ankle-length orange chemise covering his giant build, Omar was well acquainted with the discrepancy between his country’s size and its reputation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

A man’s shirt, une chemise, is feminine, but a woman’s shirt, un chemisier, is masculine.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

Caroline Weber, a fashion historian and professor of French literature at Barnard College, has written about Marie Antoinette’s white muslin chemise dresses, known as gaulles, worn in the late 1770s.

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

Next I pulled on a cotton chemise with pretty white ribbons, thankful for its lack of sleeves.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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