chemisette

Borrowed from French chemisette.

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɛmɪˈzɛt/, /ʃəˌmiˈzɛt/

chemisette (plural chemisettes)

1. An item of women's clothing, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 122:

     [Of Italian peasants] And then their dress—the fine plaited chemisette close round the throat—the long gold ear-rings, those indispensables of their toilette—the black velvet boddice, showing the figure to such advantage, laced with gold and coloured silks—the full petticoat—the apron trimmed with gay ribands; all put on so neatly, and with such a fine taste for harmony of colouring.

   • Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, 1914, English by Edwin McClellen, 1968

     Of the items I was asked to buy, the one that gave me most trouble was a chemisette.

• chemisette in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

chemise +‎ -ette

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.mi.zɛt/

chemisette f (plural chemisettes)

1. short-sleeved shirt/blouse

• → English: chemisette

• “chemisette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.