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negligee

[neg-li-zhay, neg-li-zhay] / ˌnɛg lɪˈʒeɪ, ˈnɛg lɪˌʒeɪ /


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Blurring those realms — which the original director, Harold Prince, had taken pains to keep separate — turned Sally, a Weimar party girl in Joe Masteroff’s book, into a neither-world negligee zombie.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Think about Rodarte, where Kate and Laura Mulleavy offered up a look book of pastoral fantasy fashion football: rose-festooned, ribbed-hem silk sweatpants and sweatshirts; handkerchief print pajama suits, peignoirs and negligee dresses.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020

In an essay published a decade and a half later, Fisher wrote that the iron negligee was “what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019

Swanning around in astonishing high-femme outfits—to comfort a child after a nightmare, she wears an emerald velvet robe over a peach negligee, with cork-heeled platforms—she reads like a little girl’s notion of a grown woman.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018

I suspect it is the property of Countess Andrenyi, since her luggage contained only a chiffon negligee so. elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing gown.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie


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