What is "camisoles"

Usage examples of "camisoles".

There were cocktail dresses, evening gowns, smart little suits that showed more leg than she normally revealed, shorts, camp shirts, lacy camisoles, jeans, cashmere sweater sets, skirts.

All three of them were wearing nothing above their skirts except camisoles which covered skin but didn’t exactly hide anything.

He sorted through the piles of finery with ruthless hands, trying not to notice the gossamer pantelets and camisoles, trying not to remember how Jessica had looked with her ruined peignoir torn away from her breasts, revealing the marks of a man’s brutality on her luminous skin.

They were filled with fragile little camisoles and lace-trimmed panties, ankle socks edged with more lace, shades of pink and lavender and mint and baby blue, delicate white kid gloves that were too small for Tiga’s marsh-roughened hands.

But the pinkness and whiteness of underskirts and camisoles, the filminess of foundation garments, the rustle about the bustle and the fuss about the bust.

She pulled from the press three black shifts, six camisoles, gloves, and a shawl.

For two years Celia threw in her lot with the decadent London young, gave parties for shits in satin plus-fours and bitches in neon camisoles, ate at Tastes and Casa Ari beside pricks with powder-puffed hair and tarts in three-piece pinstripe suits, went to Serena's and Poor on the arms of bastards in high-heeled gambados and slags in tapestry body stockings.

Driftwood and small sand heaps weigh down the cotton twill of the defunct Prussian Army and the checkered, stiff-dry yield of the latest flood, inhibiting their tendency to flutter away: nightgowns, morning coats, pants without seats, kitchen rags, jerkins, shriveled dress uniforms, curtains with peepholes, camisoles, pinafores, coachmen's coats, trusses, chest bandages, chewed-up carpets, the bowels of neckties, pennants from a shooting match, and a dowry of table linen stink and attract flies.