camise

His clothes, his beard, his very features have much the appearance that his house has, as if the owner of it were distant on another occupation, and the camise has regained a considerable portion of his clearing.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

In pattering droves of hundreds they trekked in from the camise before there was light enough to shoot by, and nipped once and with precision at the ripest in every bunch.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

(Probably from camise, a black blouse worn as a uniform).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Others say that it arose from their wearing a white shirt, or camise, over their dress, to enable them to distinguish each other in their night attacks; and that this was not the case, is partly countenanced by the fact that in the course of the insurrection a body of peasant royalists took the field, who designated themselves the

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

Albanian, in crimson and gold embroidered jacket, and snowy camise, started forward, and holding out his silver-sheathed yataghan commanded the postilions to stop.

Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Omer, of Great Ann Street, who wore a knee-length, white camise and a brown suit jacket, allegedly withheld the information between April 5 and April 18 last year.

unknown title 2009

In Arabic LL camisa became gamīs, kamís ` long shirt 'and was taken into English as camise ` light, loose, long-sleeved shirt, gown, or tunic sometimes worn as an undergarment,' and Modern Greek has hypokámiso

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991