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, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.

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

[French, from Old French peignouer, linen covering used while combing oneself, from peigner, to comb the hair, from Latin pectināre, from pecten, pectin-, comb.]

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French

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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.

    Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • He was halfway in the jeep when his GI driver pointed out the incriminating peignoir.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He was halfway in the jeep when his GI driver pointed out the incriminating peignoir.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Ouai ... en peignoir, au milieu de la rue, à 10 heures du matin …

    bibi - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • 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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