sark

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Chemise, she-mēz′, n. a woman's shirt or sark, a smock or shift.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The firsten bower that he came till, There was right dowie wark; Her mither and her three sisters145 Were makin' to Annie a sark.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

The reader at Wythburn had for his salary three pounds yearly, a hempen sark or shirt, a whittlegate, and a goosegate, or right to depasture a flock of geese on Helvellyn.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

At the hinder end, he got a clearness in his mind, sat up in his sark on the bed-side, and fell thinkin' ance mair o' the black man an' Janet.

From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

I tied it in the tail o' my sark for safety.

From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Watson, Robert