camissale
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Searchable Lemmata: camissale (L).
Alternate Forms: camissaleque. Unique.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Garment;
a linen shirt (in the writings of Alcuin).(circa 804)
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, a derivation of camisia (see chemise); in continental medieval Latin normally found as camisīle (which gave the French word chainsel (see chaisel), a word which may have originally meant a linen garment, but by the period of regula attestation generally meant the fine linen from which such garments were made.
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