habit-shirt

She stood before the glass braiding and arranging her dark glossy hair, that luxuriant ornament of her bright, rosy face; then she put on the blossom white lace habit-shirt and striped pink and drab silk dress, her kind father's last gift, and the smart shawl and pink bonnet were duly arranged afterwards.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Over her full-formed bust, she wore a clear, and stiffly-starched muslin habit-shirt of purest white, a beautiful lace-edged ruff around her throat, over her ample shoulders was thrown a fawn-coloured shawl, and she wore also, a silver gray gown of the material called Norwich crape, with an apron rivalling in whiteness cap, habit-shirt, and ruff.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various

I made myself a habit-shirt on the strength of this lecture, but every day I am getting more and more like a lump of sugar that is melting away at the bottom of a cup of weak tea, and all the sewing in the world would not revive me.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

This was carrying the joke a _leetle_ too far, and Susan, equally alarmed for her reputation and her habit-shirt, struggled to free herself from the embrace of the votary of Apollo; but the fiddler was not to be so easily disposed of, and he clung to the object of his admiration with such pertinacity that Susan was compelled to redouble her exertions, which were ultimately successful in embedding the double-bass in the body of his instrument.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

“collar” and “habit-shirt” and sweet “chemisette.”

Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850