Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman's loose-fitting dressing gown.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A loose dressing-sack worn by women, usually of washable material; by extension, a woman's dressing-gown or morning-gown; a wrapper.
Wiktionary
- n. A long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman's loose dressing sack; hence, a loose morning gown or wrapper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loose dressing gown for women
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French peignouer, linen covering used while combing oneself, from peigner, to comb the hair, from Latin pectināre, from pecten, pectin-, comb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Ouai ... en peignoir, au milieu de la rue, à 10 heures du matin …”
“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.”
“He was halfway in the jeep when his GI driver pointed out the incriminating peignoir.”
“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.”
“The door opened and Eline came in, looking rather pale in a white flannel peignoir, with her hair loose and flowing.”
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“The paperback cover of this hideous book (title lifted wholesale from Somerset Maugham) shows a young buck looking down at a bosomy 1970-ish Carolina belle in a courtyard with her peignoir trashily left open (it's fiction).”
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“With enormous gusto, she ripped the peignoir in half and tossed it down on the marble floor.”
“A natural cousin to the dressing gown and the peignoir, both of which existed prior to the Edwardian era, the tea gown developed in the 1870s, when both day and evening dresses were tightly fitted.”
“I fiddled with my hair, the peignoir, taking it off, thinking about pulling on my panties or getting fully dressed again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peignoir’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
orecchiette, rhabdomancy, guayabera, orthoepy, opisthenar, maguey, proem, ciabatta, cioppino, banns, concinnity, asthenia and 237 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Blood Meridian: The Words
Words from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"
argosy, ossuary, thaumaturge, devonian, ristras, chartvail, catafalque, suzerain, argonauts, unrectified, surbated, pyrolatrous and 86 more...
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Breaking free from "I before E"
Words that have an I after an E after a letter that's not C.
sheik, seize, weird, foreign, caffeine, apartheid, deity, heifer, leisure, being, either, height and 30 more...
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traipsin' 'long through dis 'ear book...
Words which are either entirely new to me or;
Words which I comprehend generally but would prefer a more precise definition.
venality, seigneurial, mendicant, perforce, manse, glebe, trenchant, saw, obstreperous, profligate, dissipation, galliard and 176 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 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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Marie Antoinette
New words encountered while reading Marie Antoinette, The Journey by Antonia Fraser
dropsy, belvedere, lorgnettes, aquiline, capricious, cognomen, myopic, sibylline, erudition, prandial, roué, embonpoint and 17 more...
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Naughty Naughty
gyrate, torrid, by-blow, paramour, cuckold, salacious, philander, john thomas, uxorious, lithe, skivvies, coquet and 56 more...
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lyric words
windbound, dayspring, stickybeak, cantillation, liming, moonglade, brisance, volery, figurant, apolar, senium, halidom and 15 more...
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Found reading
telga, tarantass, jalousie, argillaceous, sardanapalus, losel, circumambient, orbicular, mufti, statim, spizzerinctum, soupçon and 46 more...
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The Awakening
Interesting words from "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin.
befurbelowed, lugger, pension, quadroon, bonbons, peignoir, rockaway, friandises, creole, accouchements, vouchsafe, remonstrate and 30 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
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milosrdenstvi Complacencies of the peignoir... May 26, 2010