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# chemise

«chemise» in Mova's school dictionary: **A loose, simple dress or a woman's undergarment like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (chemise, chemises)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A loose, simple dress or a woman's undergarment like a long shirt, worn in the past under other clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#m1)

2) (French) «Chemise» means «shirt» in French. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Victorian and Tudor women wore a chemise under their dresses. In French lessons, «une chemise» is a shirt, a false friend for English learners.

### examples

- In Tudor times, women wore a linen chemise under their dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x1)
- The chemise kept the outer clothes clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x2)
- In French, «chemise» means shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x3)
- The museum showed a white chemise from 1800. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x4)
- She wore a simple chemise dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x5)
- Washing the chemise was easier than washing the gown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/#x6)

### note

Say «she-MEEZ». In English it is an old-fashioned garment; in French it is an ordinary shirt.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chemise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.