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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A woman's loose dressing gown, often of soft, delicate fabric.
  2. n. Informal or incomplete attire.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An item of women's nightwear, in the form of a lacy nightgown.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a loose dressing gown for women

Etymologies

  1. French négligée, from feminine past participle of négliger, to neglect, from Latin neglegere; see neglect.

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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

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