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camisole en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkamɪsəʊl/ (UK)
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Etymology

From French camisole, from Old Occitan camisola, diminutive of camisa (“shirt”).

Meanings

1. A short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.
   • A visible bra strap, a bit of camisole peeking, a partially exposed thong: Innerwear slinks into a new role 2004, Marisa Kula, “Lingerie Sashays into Outerwear”, in The Oregonian:
2. (dated) A straitjacket.
3. (historical) A light jacket with sleeves.

Forms

Deriveds

camiknickers · camisoled · camikini

Synonyms

negligee · underbodice

Translations (25)

lt (apatinė) palaidinė (undergarment) · id kamisol (undergarment) · mi hīreti (undergarment) · fr camisole (undergarment) · ja キャミソール (undergarment) · de Leibchen (undergarment) · es camisola (undergarment) · cmn 小可愛 /小可爱 (undergarment) · kk қамзол (light jacket) · pt camisolão (undergarment) · io kamizolo (undergarment) · ms kamsiol (undergarment) · uk камзо́л (light jacket) · nl kamizool (undergarment) · cs kazajka (light jacket) · cs kamizola (light jacket) · cmn 吊帶背心 /吊带背心 (undergarment) · de Kamisol (undergarment) · cmn 吊帶 /吊带 (undergarment) · uk камісо́ль (undergarment) · ru камзо́л (light jacket) · ko 캐미솔 (undergarment) · ru камисо́ль (undergarment) · cs košilka (undergarment) · de Mieder (undergarment)

camisole en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈkamɪsəʊl/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

From French camisole, from Old Occitan camisola, diminutive of camisa (“shirt”).

Meanings

1. (dated) To straitjacket.
   • He believes it better to camisole a patient than to seclude him. 1882, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 821:
   • If, in viewing the question from its sentimental aspect, you deplore the insult offered to manly dignity by camisoling a fellow-creature, let me ask if this manly dignity is not already compromised by the fact of patients covering themselves with ordure, denuding and mutilating themselves and striking those about them? 1881, Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica N. Y., for the Year 1880, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, […], pages 54–55:
   • She had been camisoled, and fastened in bed, with “ties of muslin cloth about fifteen inches wide,” and left alone for the night, during which, her struggles “had so increased the pressure of the ties as to produce considerable swelling” and increased discoloration. 1884, The American Psychological Journal, volume II, page 164:

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