Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's loose dressing gown, often of soft, delicate fabric.
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- noun An item of women's nightwear, in the form of a lacy
nightgown .
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- noun a loose dressing gown for women
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She had on what could not, by any stretch of his imagination, be termed a negligee, nor on the other hand, could anyone call it a bathrobe.
Knocked for a Loop Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 1957
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She was wearing some kind of negligee, Alexei could see, but it was nothing more than a swathe of silk, one strap loosened from her shoulder.
Purchased For Revenge James, Julia 2006
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She was wearing some kind of negligee, Alexei could see, but it was nothing more than a swathe of silk, one strap loosened from her shoulder.
Purchased for Revenge James, Julia 2006
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Just wearing a negligee can make you feel flirtatious and once that energy emerges from you it will behave like a love potion that men won't be able to resist.
Agi Smith: A Divorcée Who No Longer Feels Boobalicious Agi Smith 2011
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When she turned on the lights in the drawing-room, she disclosed herself clad in a sweeping negligee gown of soft rose-colored stuff, throat and shoulders smothered in lace.
To Kill a Man 2010
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A husband walks into Victoria's Secret to purchase a sheer negligee for his wife.
Me and my buddies were wondering whats the best way to hunt coons? and to get rid of badgers? 2009
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A husband walks into Victoria's Secret to purchase a sheer negligee for his wife.
Me and my buddies were wondering whats the best way to hunt coons? and to get rid of badgers? 2009
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Just wearing a negligee can make you feel flirtatious and once that energy emerges from you it will behave like a love potion that men won't be able to resist.
Agi Smith: A Divorcée Who No Longer Feels Boobalicious Agi Smith 2011
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She, clad in a pastel pink boa negligee, and me ga ga.
Maryjane Fahey: The "Absolutely Fabulous" Woman Who Showed Me The Way Maryjane Fahey 2012
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She, clad in a pastel pink boa negligee, and me ga ga.
Maryjane Fahey: The "Absolutely Fabulous" Woman Who Showed Me The Way Maryjane Fahey 2012
sakhalinskii commented on the word negligee
Something you would appear to have caught me wearing, and little else, bursting into my hotel room so late. *Acts coy*
August 4, 2008