lingerie

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On screen she is best known as the lingerie-wearing lawyer seduced by Terry Clark on Channel Nine's Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities.

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  1. noun Women's underwear.
  2. noun Archaic Linen articles, especially garments.

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  • Consider packaged lingerie, which is in many ways just like the perfect romantic partner - low maintenance and smokin 'hot. —  AVN News
  • On screen she is best known as the lingerie-wearing lawyer seduced by Terry Clark on Channel Nine's Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities. —  Blayney Chronicle
  • Latex and leather lingerie is always good for a little private sex play or to wear to a fetish ball or party. —  feminist blogs
  • Sarah Palin may look hot in some lingerie, and your husbands may fantasize about her. —  WordPress.com News
  • The lingerie is all made of fashionable high quality. —  We Blog A Lot
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  1. French, from Old French, from linge, linen, from Latin līneus, made of linen, from līnum, flax; see librevema.gifno- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, a linen-warehouse, linen goods, linen underwear, from linger, a dealer in linen goods, from linge, linen, flax, from Latin linum, flax, linen: see line.
 

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