"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment".
- Immediately behind her came Ce'Nedra, clad only in a very short chemise.
- Greenwich's famous clipper ship gets her name from the cutty sark or short chemise (a loose-fitting dress or under garment), which her figure-head wears.
- She twisted buttons, playing out lengths of billowing nylene to cover her short indoor chemise, and slid her head into the brusher which automatically attended to her short hair.
- When she reached the deserted beach-, she stripped off the hot, restricting gown and walked slowly down the beach toward the ocean, clad only in her short chemise.
- In the ladies' retiring room, she changed from Fleet uniform to the layers of white: long pantaloons under a petticoat, a short white chemise.
- There were short chemises, long flowing satins, and corselets worn with short, full skirts.
- In the poem she wore a linen sark (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was cutty, or in other words far too short.
- Her short chemise rose with her efforts and he had a glimpse of a triangle of dark honey hair.
- She wore a sort of turban with earrings pendant from her plastic lobes, a loose-fitting short chemise with contours that indicated Earth-positioned falsies, and half-calf suede boots.
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