Lexicographical Neighbors of Camisa
Literary usage of Camisa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes Upon the Ethnography of Southern Mexico by Frederick Starr, Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences (1902)
"... or belt, is worn, the waist-band of the skirt fastening tightly over the camisa.
Little girls wear a single piece garment, a camisa, ..."
2. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... «'•):ruck service camisa, 'but. shift, chemise (f.) Imm,-. shirt. case | second
mould for bells, mold (st - eng.) jacket, case, casing (lo. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Fugir em camisa, to run away in one's shirt. camisa de cebra, the slough, or cast
skin of a snake. camisa, (in fortifications,) a narrow wall round a castle ..."
4. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1842)
"Rough-casting or plastering of a wall before it is white-washed camisa ...
Tomar la mu/fer en camisa, To marry a woman without money. ..."
5. Supplementary Papers (1893)
"560) mentions not only an old fort at camisa, but also salt mines ; and the
presence of salt in the soil is attested by a series of small brackish lakes a ..."
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