peignoir

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Now then--make haste Off flew the peignoir, and, with the help of the excited maids, Kitty slipped into her dress.

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  1. noun A woman's loose-fitting dressing gown.

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  • She wore a long white gown—a peignoir, he thought it might be called—and had managed to put some semblance of order to her bright hair. —  THE MISTRESS
  • 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
  • Then, before my bath, I do dumb-bell exercises in front of the mirror I remember dining with my husband one night in a pink lace peignoir--we had been married about three years--and during the dessert, I excused myself and went into my bedroom and, posing before a cheval glass, I let the peignoir slip off my shoulders, and stood there like a piece of polished marble, rejoicing in my youth and loveliness How I hated my husband that night! —  Possessed
  • Madame Léonie then extended her shapely bare arm out of her peignoir, pointing dramatically at the divan This poor terrified child has rushed here two miles from home on foot--running all the way What on earth has happened?" —  The Point Of Honor A Military Tale
  • After a moment or two she appeared in cap and peignoir, and the three of us in dressing-gowns, I with lather crinkling over one-half of my face, held first an indignation meeting, and then a council of war I never dreamed the brute would do this," said Jaffery. —  Jaffery
 

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  1. 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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  1. French, from peigner, comb.
 

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