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单词 negligee
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Definition of negligee in English:

negligee

(also négligée)
nounˈnɛɡlɪʒeɪˌnɛɡləˈʒeɪ
  • A woman's light dressing gown, typically made of a filmy, soft fabric.

    a black silk negligee
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A number of companies have offered, and still do, camouflage negligees, which begs the question: If you can see through camouflage is it really camouflage?
    • Tucked down the side of one, inexplicably, was a black negligee.
    • Mary opens the door wearing a black negligee and drags Frank inside.
    • Some hats were homemade, like the old cowboy hat covered with a red negligee.
    • They're all scantily clad in nighties and negligees, and it's hard to see past that into their characterization.
    • Serena has kept the photographers happy here by wearing what looks like a black negligee with giant pink tyre marks on it.
    • Her flawless chocolate skin appeared soft and inviting against the ivory silk of her negligee.
    • Do what you enjoy - whether it's showering, putting on after-shave or perfume, or wearing silk pajamas or a flattering negligee.
    • One morning I was dressed in my black negligee when the postman called with a registered letter.
    • Laughter, compromise, a naughty negligee - these are just some of the keys to a happy marriage, say couples who have been together 15 years or more.
    • She then gets up, cleans the house in her negligee, takes out the garbage in her negligee - and is attacked by her lecherous landlord.
    • A babydoll is a short nightgown or negligee intended as nightwear for a female.
    • She was lounging in a silk negligee, covered up with a bed robe.
    • Viewers of the TV and cinema ad saw the man driving around a city, inter-cut with shots of the same mannequin's face and its hand hitching up its negligee to expose the top of its stockings.
    • He waits in eager anticipation as she changes into her negligee in the bathroom…
    • The beige moulded shop-fittings remained, but the knickers and negligees made way for campaign posters and canvassing rotas and, on a plinth where the cash register once stood, a vase of red roses, which proceeded to bloom.
    • Feeling luxuriously languid in your silk negligee, you lounge against the bedroom door, caressing the door jamb like it's a small fluffy puppy.
    • Did she wear the rose negligee, the pink see-through slip or the purple Empire-waisted gown?
    • At this stage in the development of the archetypal pin-up photograph, there was still more satin than skin, with the figure hugging satin gowns and silk negligees being the props de rigueur.
    • Then you come swooping in, wearing some lacy negligee and a silk dressing gown.

Origin

Mid 18th century (denoting a kind of loose gown worn by women): from French, literally 'given little thought or attention', feminine past participle of négliger 'to neglect'.

 
 

Definition of negligee in US English:

negligee

nounˌnɛɡləˈʒeɪˌneɡləˈZHā
  • A woman's light dressing gown, typically made of a filmy, soft fabric.

    a black silk negligee
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One morning I was dressed in my black negligee when the postman called with a registered letter.
    • Laughter, compromise, a naughty negligee - these are just some of the keys to a happy marriage, say couples who have been together 15 years or more.
    • Then you come swooping in, wearing some lacy negligee and a silk dressing gown.
    • Tucked down the side of one, inexplicably, was a black negligee.
    • A babydoll is a short nightgown or negligee intended as nightwear for a female.
    • A number of companies have offered, and still do, camouflage negligees, which begs the question: If you can see through camouflage is it really camouflage?
    • At this stage in the development of the archetypal pin-up photograph, there was still more satin than skin, with the figure hugging satin gowns and silk negligees being the props de rigueur.
    • Do what you enjoy - whether it's showering, putting on after-shave or perfume, or wearing silk pajamas or a flattering negligee.
    • They're all scantily clad in nighties and negligees, and it's hard to see past that into their characterization.
    • Mary opens the door wearing a black negligee and drags Frank inside.
    • Feeling luxuriously languid in your silk negligee, you lounge against the bedroom door, caressing the door jamb like it's a small fluffy puppy.
    • Serena has kept the photographers happy here by wearing what looks like a black negligee with giant pink tyre marks on it.
    • She was lounging in a silk negligee, covered up with a bed robe.
    • He waits in eager anticipation as she changes into her negligee in the bathroom…
    • Some hats were homemade, like the old cowboy hat covered with a red negligee.
    • She then gets up, cleans the house in her negligee, takes out the garbage in her negligee - and is attacked by her lecherous landlord.
    • Her flawless chocolate skin appeared soft and inviting against the ivory silk of her negligee.
    • Did she wear the rose negligee, the pink see-through slip or the purple Empire-waisted gown?
    • Viewers of the TV and cinema ad saw the man driving around a city, inter-cut with shots of the same mannequin's face and its hand hitching up its negligee to expose the top of its stockings.
    • The beige moulded shop-fittings remained, but the knickers and negligees made way for campaign posters and canvassing rotas and, on a plinth where the cash register once stood, a vase of red roses, which proceeded to bloom.

Origin

Mid 18th century (denoting a kind of loose gown worn by women): from French, literally ‘given little thought or attention’, feminine past participle of négliger ‘to neglect’.

 
 
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