Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's loose-fitting dressing gown.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loose dressing-sack worn by women, usually of washable material; by extension, a woman's dressing-gown or morning-gown; a wrapper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman's loose dressing sack; hence, a loose morning gown or wrapper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A long outer
garment for women, usuallysheer and made ofchiffon and often sold with matchingnightgown ,negligee orunderwear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I believe the thing was called a peignoir; or possibly it was a negligee, since it certainly was negligible as far as the amount of fabric used in its construction was concerned.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004
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I believe the thing was called a peignoir; or possibly it was a negligee, since it certainly was negligible as far as the amount of fabric used in its construction was concerned.
DarklyDreamingDexter 2004
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In one scene, a woman in a peignoir a recurrent Bausch costume ebulliently lets loose with a leaf blower on a autumn hillside casting golden foliage seemingly out into the theater, in another sequence, a shirtless man balances tree branches on his arms and shoulders and walks towards the camera.
Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011
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He was halfway in the jeep when his GI driver pointed out the incriminating peignoir.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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In one scene, a woman in a peignoir a recurrent Bausch costume ebulliently lets loose with a leaf blower on a autumn hillside casting golden foliage seemingly out into the theater, in another sequence, a shirtless man balances tree branches on his arms and shoulders and walks towards the camera.
Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011
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In one scene, a woman in a peignoir a recurrent Bausch costume ebulliently lets loose with a leaf blower on a autumn hillside casting golden foliage seemingly out into the theater, in another sequence, a shirtless man balances tree branches on his arms and shoulders and walks towards the camera.
Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011
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Mickey Demers reclined on a white couch, in a white peignoir with lapel of white fur and matching white slippers, holding a crystal martini glass.
Happy Landings David Ackley 2011
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He was halfway in the jeep when his GI driver pointed out the incriminating peignoir.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Ouai ... en peignoir, au milieu de la rue, à 10 heures du matin …
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In one scene, a woman in a peignoir a recurrent Bausch costume ebulliently lets loose with a leaf blower on a autumn hillside casting golden foliage seemingly out into the theater, in another sequence, a shirtless man balances tree branches on his arms and shoulders and walks towards the camera.
Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word peignoir
Complacencies of the peignoir...
May 26, 2010