subs. (common).—A shirt or chemise.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Biled rag (American); camesa; carrion-case; commission; dickey (formerly a worn-out shirt); gad (gipsy); lully; mill tog; mish; narp (Scots’); shaker; shimmy (= a chemise, Marryat); smish.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Une liquette or limace (thieves’: from the Gypsy. The form also occurs in the Italian lima); un panais (popular).
GERMAN SYNONYMS.—Kamis, Kamsel, Kemsel, or Gemsel (from med. Lat., Camisiale; Fr. camisole); Kesones, Kusones, or Ksones (also = cotton and underclothing); Staude or Stauden; Hanfstandt (Liber Vagatorum: literally hempshrub).
ITALIAN SYNONYM.—Lima (see Fr., limace).
1820. London Magazine, I., 29. They are often without a FLESH-BAG to their backs.
