What is "underclothes"

Usage examples of "underclothes".

Pieces of it fell as she lifted her skirts and pulled up her underclothes, holding the buttonless waistband of her pantaloons in place.

By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail.

With a stealth acquired from all the times she had snuck out as a teenager to meet Repp, she searched out her clothes in the dark, stuffed her socks and underclothes in her boots, dragged on her jeans, and slipped into her blouse, hastily buttoning it.

As for the rest of my infancy, it is a passing lantern-show of swaddling bands, sore gums, wooden rattles, tops, hoops, rods, whips, tears, tantrums, messed underclothes, pulled hair, grazed knees, teeth left under pillows, burning candlewax, stone flags, water-rats, whiskery old aunts, causeless laughter and unreined grief.

There, amid a fabulous fetishistic compendium of Belle Epoque embroidered underclothes, he at last smelled the rearrangement going on in me.

Mikhailo Ivanovich sat at the table in the posthouse reception room with nothing on save his underclothes.

Perhaps, to spare herself the embarrassment of asking Rackham for a laundry maid after all, she could buy herself new sheets and underclothes every week!

A dress had to be put long, because it did not have averages and it refused to use the underclothes of another woman.

Pile out, you boes, get on your toes, an' blow your nose on your underclothes!

It did not contradict, trying to speak with indifference and impersonal tone while she cleared the congealed underclothes to him.

The underclothes, that scratched against the hair on his thighs and itched savagely, were another factor he had no love for, but time might improve that.

On the bench of the changing room were underclothes, socks, and a shirt.

Pancho groused to herself as the inspector carefully went through Amanda’s travel bag, alternately grinning at Mandy and reddening as he saw her lacy underclothes.

Thus Lockridge chose what he imagined was a prosperous man's travelling garb: linen underclothes and shirt, satin doublet, crimson trunk hose, high boots, floppy-brimmed cap, blue cloak trimmed with fur, sword and knife (the latter doubtless mainly for eating purposes), and miscellaneous gear that he could only guess about.

Still moving quietly, so as not to wake Bill Wiltshire, who was sleeping in a room just across the corridor, he spread my dressing-gown on the floor, flung on to it a lounge suit, a shirt, underclothes, shoes, socks, my hair brushes and a few other things, then tied the whole lot up in a bundle, and slipped downstairs with it.