camiknickers


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camiknickers

(ˈkæmɪˌnɪkəz)
pl n
(Clothing & Fashion) women's knickers attached to a camisole top. Often shortened to: camiknicks
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camiknickers

pl → Spitzenhemdhöschen nt
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It started to get referred to as "undies," and there were cute little camiknickers and things instead of the elaborate luxurious fortress that the Edwardian woman and her lover would have to dismantle to get her undressed.
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Across the board - from cars to camiknickers as it were - western brands may be able to get some traction in China on the appeal of their international reputation.
Tapping into Chinese consumer boom will require some subtle thinking
If we can gub Germany with pink blouses, who says we couldn't slip into some silk camiknickers and horse Brazil.
Football: TAM COWAN; Strip off the Hoops, Bhoys ... you'll sure look gritty in pink
Rab says ah'd make a real presence on stage as a Spice Girl, dressed in mah wool- knit cardy and camiknickers, wallapin away on a tambourine or two.
Mary Doll would Ginger up Spicers
Well, certainly a bit of a tease because it took her lusty lover longer to peel through the layers of shifts, shimmies, corsets and camiknickers than a slo-mo Salome would take to shed her Seven Veils.
Corsets a problem, doc!; LANNING on the box
This is what finally appeared beneath the graphics: "There was a little girl, and she had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead/When she was good, she was very, very good/ And when she was bad, she wore these divine camiknickers from Saks Fifth Avenue".
A graphic tale from the beginning; Richard Edmonds marvels at a new book that examines the history of printing from 1700 to 1914
They also sell their own deep lace camiknickers and fully-fashioned nylon stockings, made on the original machines from the 40s and 50s, for which America is their largest market.
Nylon range goes down well; LINGERIE: Firm takes off after couple step into breeches
Lilac bra with lace trim, pounds 4, and camiknickers, pounds 4, Matalan
Cheap frills; Lovely lingerie for less
You could get camiknickers in soft cotton or even silk.
FASHION: Forties flair was pure ingenuity
All girls in camiknickers and revealingly high kicks.
Boys will be girls: Task: The cancan; Girls (some of us, anyway) love a good cancan, and can (geddit?) cos, with all those high kicks and frou-frou skirts, dancing doesn't get much more feminine. So how would poor David Cunningham, 23, cope when we forced him to come over all Moulin Rouge?
snapping up the biggest bargain of the January sales - Swan & Edgar lace camiknickers for 2s 11d
M Challenge: In 1936 you would be...; Aspiring to look like Greta Garbo instead of Madonna, and feeling terribly terribly smart in your new Persian lamp cap. Well, you did ask!

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