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Negligee   Listen
noun
negligee, neglige  n.  (Also spelled negligé and negligée)  
1.
An easy, unceremonious attire; undress.
2.
A kind of loose, flowing dressing gown worn by women, usually made of sheer fabric.
Synonyms: negligee, peignoir.





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"Negligee" Quotes from Famous Books



... and went on combing her hair with the air of one who has hours before her. She wore a silken negligee of flamingo red which matched her surroundings, for this room was as flaming as the other was subdued. Yet the effect was not that of crude color; it was, rather, that of color intensified deliberately to produce a contrast. ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... White Linen Nurse. "Oh." Quite palpably a little shiver of flesh and starch went rustling through her. "I've had a wonderful day, too!" she confided softly. "I've cleaned the attic and darned nine pairs of your stockings and bought a sewing-machine—and started to make you a white silk negligee shirt for a surprise!" ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... arranged or changed, he was in himself a sermon on neatness and self-respect, which, though none of us said much about it, we felt all the same. Then by and by one and another began to respond to the little silver whistle, as well as Rob. One laid aside a bicycle dress, another a half-invalid negligee, till you could hardly have believed it was the same company of a ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
... and I don't wish to be continually seeming to interfere with your business, but if I were a man with fifty years leering hideously at me, and engaged to a pretty girl of two and twenty, I'd make quick work of it before Providence came along with a younger affinity in a Panama hat, negligee shirt, ...
— The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field
... suspicion that lay behind her speech as, in negligee, she sat cross-legged on the bed, smoking a cigarette in a very knowing way, while watching Mary, who was adjusting her hat before the mirror of her dressing-table, one ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana


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