chemise• She had the money Mrs Dallam had paid her for the petticoats and chemises.• The filmychemises were dearly paid for.• Then there were the fashioneditors that could have described her chemisefrock while she did the shooting.• She felt almost naked, as if she were parading in her chemise.• His hand slid under my chemise.• Dinah spread one of her new chemises over the pillow.• The women, always busier, go about in their chemises, trimmed in embroidery.• Before the nineteenth century women had to make do with their chemises and petticoats.