Also (in Byron) camese. [Arab. qamīç under-tunic, shirt; occurring in the Koran, but generally thought to be ad. L. camisia, camisa: see CAMIS, CHEMISE; Mahn suggests Skr. kshauma linen stuff.] The shirt worn by Arabs and other Mohammedans.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., II. Tambourgi, ii. Oh! who is more brave than a dark Suliote, In his snowy camese and his shaggy capote?
c. 1850. Nat. Encycl., I. 237. The national costume of the lower orders [in Afghanistan] is … a large shirt, ‘camiss,’ worn over the trowsers, reaching down to the knees.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 143. The Suliote of the fruitship, in his camise and capote.
1865. S. Evans, Bro. Fabian’s MS., 105. Snow-white the camise.
