Lexicographical Neighbors of Camises
Literary usage of Camises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chivalry by Francis Warre Cornish (1908)
"... manteaux et camises, manches et habits) till at last they all sat with their
heads bare (le chef pur) and laughed at each other's dishevelled ..."
2. Journey to the North of India Overland from England Through Russia, Persia by Arthur Conolly (1834)
"... we were not possessed of a sous, scarcely of any thing worth one, and except,
in his estimation, a rather superfluous quantity of camises, ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"By Burton : CamiSes, vii. 59. " When near that splendid couch took place the
guest and others further off, prompt glance and keen the Samorin cost on folk ..."
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