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negligee

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
neglige \neg`li*ge"\, negligee \neg`li*gee"\(n[e^]g`l[i^]*zh[=a]"; F. n[asl]`gl[-e]`zh[asl]"), n. [Also spelled neglig['e] and neglig['e]e . F. n['e]glig['e], fr. n['e]gliger to neglect, L. negligere. See Neglect .] An easy, unceremonious ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1756, "a kind of loose gown worn by women," from French négligée , noun use of fem. past participle of négligier "to neglect" (14c.), from Latin neglegere "to disregard, not heed, not trouble oneself about," also "to make light of" (see neglect (v.)). So ...

Usage examples of negligee.

She was in a complete state of negligee, and came in on tiptoe, though if she chose to look towards the bed she might have seen that I was wide awake.

Spencer Howell, fresh from the shower and wearing a pink negligee, stood in the door of her bathroom and brushed her hair, waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Ed Banning to notice her.

When Shaik Tsin thumped the panels of her door, she crushed the note into the bosom of her negligee before answering.

Even the lesbian ones, tremendous favourites around 1880, young girls already undressed and being swooningly embraced and caressed by mature ladies themselves in a pleasing negligee of loosened staylace, are seldom vulgar and rarely dirty.

As Alberta went on into the living - room on her way to the door, she said, Ellen had already started to take off the negligee and was walking toward the bathroom.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

She swept into the common in her laciest negligee, looking unusually beautiful and desirable, but my mind was too troubled to be seduced.

Renee scowled at him, drawing the semitransparent negligee around her body in a gesture that emphasized what she was purportedly attempting to hide.

Miss MacTavish: This is to notify you that payment on your account for three black silk negligees, Size 12, and four pairs Upthrust brassieres, 107 cm.

I examined her to see whether she was prettier in her new dress or in the morning's negligee, and I decided in favour of the latter.

When Hewell and Witherspoon come ankling by be at the doorway, wide-eyed, clutching your negligee or whatever and asking the usual daft questions appropriate to such occasions.

Something down the street caught my eye, though, a lacy yellow negligee in a window display, the kind of short babydoll nightie that my mother used to wear.

As soon as the bedroom light went out, I got up and went to my dresser, pulling out one of my mother’s nightgowns, a skimpy babydoll negligee, and some cosmetics and perfume I had swiped from her vanity while Ramon was at work.

Scarlett, peering at her sisters in the dim flaring light, saw that Carreen wore a nightgown, clean but in tatters, and Suellen lay wrapped in an old negligee, a brown linen garment heavy with tagging ends of Irish lace.

McGowan was wearing a frothy pink negligee and tiny matching bikini pants.