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negligee
Also 8–9 -gée, 8 neglejay.
[ad. F. négligé: see négligé. The current pron. in sense 1 was app. (nɛglɪˈdʒiː).]
1. a. A kind of loose gown worn by women in the 18th century. Also, an informal garment worn by men in the 18th century. Obs. exc. Hist.
1756Connoisseur No. 134 (1774) IV. 231, I saw several Negligees, with furbelowed aprons. 1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) I. 315 Then bid them lay upon her knee The richest satin negligee. 1776R. Graves Euphrosyne (1776) I. 194 Such as now-a-days one sees, In gauze and lace and negligées. 1795tr. C. P. Moritz's Trav. 87 In the morning, it is usual to walk out in a sort of negligèe [sic], or morning-dress, your hair not dressed, but merely rolled up in rollers, and in a frock and boots. 1823R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. (1847) 193 The negligee was a gown projecting in loose and ample folds from the back.
b. negligee shirt (N. Amer.), a soft-fronted shirt worn by men.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 278/3 Men's negligee shirts. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 Oct. 7/2 (Advt.), Men, if you want the best shirt..buy..these well made Cambric Negligee Shirts, in neat stripes.
c. transf. A shroud. U.S.
1927Amer. Mercury May 33/1 The corpse is not a corpse nor does it wear a shroud. It is the body, or the remains;..and the garment in which it is wrapped, when there is one aside from ordinary clothing, is a negligée. 1963J. Mitford Amer. Way of Death i. 26 Florence Gowns Inc...exhibited their line of ‘streetwear type garments and negligees’..at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors Association.
2. A necklace formed of irregular beads.
1841Mrs. Mozley Fairy Bower xlv. 336 My uncle had given her a very handsome long negligée, of Venetian beads. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Negligee, a long necklace, usually of coral.
3. A woman's dressing-gown, usu. made of flimsy, semi-transparent fabric trimmed with ruffles, lace, etc.
1930M. Story Individuality & Clothes iii. 311 The negligée, this garment for intimate occasions may be..silky, lacy, colorful, and dainty. 1942H. Pepin Mod. Pattern Design x. 219/1 The boudoir negligée is not to be confused with the ‘hostess gown’. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) i. 12 She shrugged and walked lazily over to the kitchenette, her filmy negligée heightening the illusion that she floated. 1960A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 80 Rosalind, in a négligée, Began to sketch me as I lay Naked. 1967B. Patten Little Johnny's Confession 51 A thousand negligées, pyjamas, nightgowns. |