What is "undergown"

Usage examples of "undergown".

With each step she took, the slit sides in the overdress gave tantalizing glimpses of her voluptuous figure, so snugly encased in the undergown.

Today Berenene was dressed for spring in a leaf green undergown and a cream-colored overgown embroidered with gold flowers.

Sandry had chosen an undergown of pale blue and a white lace overgown, with blue topazes winking at her ears and around her neck.

She clambered down from the high bed, stripping off her overgown and undergown.

The duchess wore a dark maroon undergown and a sheer black silk overgown, her jewelry equally modest.

Dressed only in her fine lawn undergown, she sat on the featherbed and kicked off her satin slippers.

It was the undergown of a dress with a rainbow assortment of skirts that stuck out like tutus from the hipline to the ankle.

The fifteenth century shows another style, a long sleeveless overgarment, reaching to the floor, fastened on shoulders and swinging loose, to show at sides the undergown.

Neeka found two undergowns of soft cotton, an overgown of bright-orange silk, a pair of gilded leather sandals, a hairband of beaten copper set with turquoise, a hairbrush, a horn comb and a handmirror of polished brass, all rolled in a quilted coverlet for the cot.

Unfolding the bundle, Neeka found two undergowns of soft cotton, an overgown of bright-orange silk, a pair of gilded leather sandals, a hair-band of beaten copper set with turquoise, a hairbrush, a horn comb and a hand mirror of polished brass, all rolled in a quilted coverlet for the cot.

Then, on special occasions, she had customarily donned an easily discardable wool dress and a fine diaphanous undergown of rose-colored Mallorean silk that clung to her as she danced.

As was proper in a married woman, the undergown, of the finest linen, covered most of her exposed chest, right up to the collarbone, and it was pulled through the myriad small slashings in the sleeves, which were faced with scarlet silk.