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Examples
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Look at Wallace Stevens – VP of the Hartford Insurance Companies by day – writing about blue guitars and complacenies of the pegnoir by night.
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Vous savez comme dans les films porno avec des gros beauf en pegnoir une coupe de champagne a la main et leur papier peint en simili zebre??
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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I can't tell what they said, though, nor what was the colour of the lady's pegnoir, for I am neither Nancy nor Polly nor the cook -- nor Rigby. "
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
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I can't tell what they said, though, nor what was the colour of the lady's pegnoir, for I am neither Nancy nor Polly nor the cook -- nor Rigby. "
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"In my hat and white _pegnoir_ -- how ridiculous, said Helen, with a faint smile.
May Brooke Anna Hanson Dorsey 1855
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word pegnoir
A woman's loose-fitting dressing gown or sack. Also peignoir. Found in Dylan Thomas's Rebecca's Daughters
March 2, 2013