Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman's loose dressing gown, often of soft, delicate fabric.
- n. Informal or incomplete attire.
Wiktionary
- n. An item of women's nightwear, in the form of lacy nightgown.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loose dressing gown for women
Etymologies
- French négligée, from feminine past participle of négliger, to neglect, from Latin neglegere; see neglect. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She had on what could not, by any stretch of his imagination, be termed a negligee, nor on the other hand, could anyone call it a bathrobe.”
“She was wearing some kind of negligee, Alexei could see, but it was nothing more than a swathe of silk, one strap loosened from her shoulder.”
“A husband walks into Victoria's Secret to purchase a sheer negligee for his wife.”
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“She, clad in a pastel pink boa negligee, and me ga ga.”
The Huffington Post: Maryjane Fahey: The "Absolutely Fabulous" Woman Who Showed Me The Way
“When she turned on the lights in the drawing-room, she disclosed herself clad in a sweeping negligee gown of soft rose-colored stuff, throat and shoulders smothered in lace.”
“Just wearing a negligee can make you feel flirtatious and once that energy emerges from you it will behave like a love potion that men won't be able to resist.”
The Huffington Post: Agi Smith: A Divorcée Who No Longer Feels Boobalicious
“First, there was that sexy poster of Alicia, breathless and in negligee.”
“When I peeled her hands back she was standing there in a beautiful see-through negligee and she said, “Carry me into the bedroom, tie me to the bed and you can do whatever you want.””
“I am undressed and on my knees in the middle of the room in my negligee, waiting.”
“Colleen was not dressed the part of a combatant, however; she was wearing a white silk negligee, modest, almost demure, more dressing gown than lingerie, and he recognized it as the same thing that she had worn on their wedding night.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘negligee’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Fancifully antiquated words
From Chambers's Etymology Dictionary, published in 1896
brackish, breviary, decrepitude, defalcate, deglutition, hebraic, heelpiece, helminthic, auld, helotry, hematine, hejira and 27 more...
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Loan words from French
gite, coq au vin, dernier cri, clique, hors d'œuvre, touché, naïve, coquette, bourgeois, contretemps, flâneur, film noir and 63 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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the worshipful company of haberdashers
NB: this list being not limited to haberdashery in the strictest sense, but also including items of the milliner's trade, the mercer's trade, and the tailor's trade, it is to be noted that I just r...
button, ribbon, damask, silk, satin, wool, gabardine, felt, trilby, haberdashery, velvet, linen and 138 more...
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Haberdashery
anorak, wale, grommet, skivvies, tenterhook, negligee, britches, tarlatan, fez, fedora, cap-a-pie, duds and 32 more...
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R.S.V.P. by the Monochrome Set (borro...
ma cherie, lingerie, tout ensemble, entre nous, femme de chambre, rendez vous, tout-a-fait, corps de ballet, pate de fois gras, je ne sais quoi, vis a vis, consomme and 11 more...
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Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
Tweets
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sakhalinskii Something you would appear to have caught me wearing, and little else, bursting into my hotel room so late. *Acts coy* Aug 4, 2008