[a. F. camisole, ad. Sp. camisola, dim. of camisa shirt: see CHEMISE.]
ǁ 1. A kind of sleeved jacket or jersey.
1816. Gentl. Mag., LXXXVI. I. 213. They wore short camisoles, huzar-sabres.
1828. G. W. Bridges, Ann. Jamaica, II. XIII. 121. Columbus found … a multitude … naked, or clothed only in a species of camisole.
2. A loose jacket worn by women when dressed in negligée.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, II. v. 56. Mrs. O’Dowd the good house-wife, arrayed in curl-papers and a camisole.
1857. C. Brontë, Professor, I. viii. 134. She seldom wore a gown—only a shabby cotton camisole.
3. A strait-jacket, formerly put upon lunatics.
1881. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
