What is "lingerie"

Usage examples of "lingerie".

On either side of the bed, Empire rock crystal lamps sat atop magnificent Louis XV tables, one a graceful fruitwood parquetry with a leather writing surface called a table ecrire, the other a small oval-shaped piece with a drawer originally intended for filmy lingerie and consequently called a table en chiffonnigre.

Dodge pulled out of the parking lot, Brooke locked up shop and grabbed an armful of the sexiest, most scandalous lingerie she could find in the shop to try on upstairs.

You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille with whalebone busk to the diamondtrimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent for Alice.

Then she retraced her steps, stopping in front of a shop window filled with tatty polyester lingerie in large sizes and boldly artificial-looking wigs: pink Afros, platinum blond falls, black-and-white Cruella De Vil tresses.

Not only did it illuminate Marla, fetchingly dressed in the sheerest lingerie imaginable, it also revealed Beowulf standing a meter behind the beautiful android, fur erect and jaws open.

They would all be home watching Jimmy Dodd and the Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club or Frankie Lymon singing 'I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent' on American Bandstand while Richie went shagging ass through ladies' lingerie and housewares on his way to the toy department with sweat pouring down his back into the crack of his ass and his terrified balls strung up so high they felt like they might be hung over his bellybutton.

In Boston, in a lingerie store, she had tried on a silk Charmeuse teddy, and had almost passed out from the erotic sensation of the divine material gliding against her flesh.

The hanging posters formed walls of a kind, and aisles, as did hundreds of stacked boxes packed full of Channing Manheim memorabilia that included T-shirts bearing his likeness and/or catchphrases from his films, wristwatches on which time ticked across his famous face, coffee mugs bearing his mug, hats, caps, jackets, drinking glasses, action figures, dolls, hundreds of different toys, lingerie, lockets, lunchboxes, and more merchandise than Fric could remember or imagine.

She had seen a head officer force open the chiffoniers where her mistress was accustomed to keep her lingerie, and he was making up a package of the finest pieces, including a great quantity of blonde lace.

People hurried from amber-lighted door to amber-lighted door across the narrow cobblestone streets walled by ornate and tidy European storefronts, framed in ancient brown brick, offering food, compact discs, souvenirs, lingerie.

It contained corsets, crinolines of varying fullness, gloves, and lingerie.

Whatever remained from Jacqueline's earnings as a model, after she had bought her cosmetics and lingerie, and her shoes and dresses-all of which came from the top fashion houses and were, even after the discount she received as a model, frightfully expensive-was swallowed by the gaping maw of the family purse and disappeared, God only knows where.

I, the narrator of the story you imagine you are reading (as opposed to Abe Snow, the narrator of the first-person story whose composition and publication my story is about), first thought of having a fictional character write the ideal contemporary novel while I was browsing through the lingerie department of the San Francisco Union Square Macy's, thinking about literature while testing how well I could see my hand through a silk teddy.

I opened her dresser and looked at all the panties and brassieres and slips folded and piled together in their blues and blacks and whites and pinks and lavenders, like a garden of lingerie, and I rested my face in the middle of their softness, like resting my face in Natelle.

My lingerie was a disgrace, shabby gray cotton I'd mended with pack thread.