Chemisette

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}}

Full definition of chemisette

Noun

1. An item of women’s clothing, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment.Of the items I was asked to buy, the one that gave me most trouble was a chemisette. — Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, 1914, English by Edwin McClellen, 1968.----