Or, put we the case, those complicated combinations, camiknickers?

She wore peach satin camiknickers and no stockings - it was breath-taking.

She paused, stroking the soft satin camiknickers.

Camiknickers, camisole and knickers joined as one garment.

"I happen to know that Steele-Stebbing wears camiknickers and plucks his eyebrows."

A one-piece women's undergarment which combined a camisole and knickers appeared in the 1910s under the name envelope chemise or camiknickers.

Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers.

'For wearing your grandmother's camiknickers stuffed with straw, I daresay I did, but I certainly didn't feel nice.

Omally felt the mark of his manhood rising to meet the occasion as the rare beauty slipped her thumbs into her silken camiknickers and dropped them to her feet.

The zig-zagging lace of her camiknickers, the criss-crossing ribbon holding the silk across her body; those straps and lines, the sheathed arms like stockinged legs themselves; a language, an architecture.

He looked her over, insolently, from head to foot and, putting her to one side, opened the top drawer and pulled out a pair of silk camiknickers in a soft shade of amber.

Her literary reputation rests on Love Lessons (1985) and Love Is Blue (1986), two selections from her diaries which led one critic to call her "a latterday Pepys in camiknickers."

Spurred on by Eva's sarcasm and the knowledge that he'd end up the following Friday in straw-filled camiknickers or even as Puss in Boots in a black leotard which fitted far too tightly, Wilt spent the afternoon working over some old notes on British Culture and Institutions.