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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. 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: negligeenounˌnɛɡləˈʒeɪˌneɡləˈZHā A woman's light dressing gown, typically made of a filmy, soft fabric. 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’. |