Word Meanings - CAMUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

CAMISATED
Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.
CAMISADE; CAMISADO
A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.
CAMIS
A light, loose dress or robe. All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.
CAMISOLE
1. A short dressing jacket for women. 2. A kind of straitjacket.
CAMISARD
One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock which they wore.