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Meanings of lingerie in English

Portuguese
lingerie
Catalan
llenceria
Spanish
lencería

Women's underwear and nightclothes.

lingerie

Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.

Synonyms
Examples for "intimate apparel"
Examples for "intimate apparel"
1
La Senza is a specialty retailer of women's intimate apparel.
Reuters
2
Some services will remain suspended including beauty appointments, changing rooms as well as suit, shoe and intimate apparel fittings.
News.com.au
3
Rosanna made intimate apparel.
The new yorker
4
I was shaking so much I had to sit down, so I chose to join my intimate apparel on the floor.
Calamity jayne
5
The ISS offers support in movement for all intimate apparel, including lingerie, nightwear, swimwear, shape wear, sportswear and maternity and nursing wear.
The Irish Times
Usage of lingerie in English
1
Edmonds-Moore will represent Ireland in the lingerie-design competition in Shanghai this October.
The Irish Times
2
The company also called for the sale of the struggling lingerie brand.
Reuters
3
The oldest one descended clumsily, displaying too much of the royal lingerie.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
4
Who says lingerie can't be frilly and functional at the same time?
The Irish Times
5
Her money went for shoes and blouses and lingerie and silk stockings.
One Basket
6
Fans tossed more flowers and lingerie and stuffed toys onto the ice.
Delta girls
7
FRIDAY I slipped off in my lunch break to go lingerie shopping.
News.com.au
8
Buy her some sexy lingerie and put it on the bed also.
Ebony
9
The lingerie shop adjoins M & S's main store on Grafton Street.
The Irish Times
10
He was delighted to find a lingerie catalog hiding in the pile.
Home to italy
11
Tim Curry looked uncomfortably like Doug's rabbi, but in heels and lingerie.
Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
12
And she was gliding along beside me dressed in skimpy black lingerie.
Blood rites
13
It needed work but was ideal for Rapture, Carmel's exclusive silk lingerie business.
The Irish Times
14
Slips features new brands and styles plus a great lingerie and swimwear collection.
The Guardian
15
At this particular moment he was more interested in her lingerie.
Love overboard
16
QUESTION: Is it inappropriate to give my new girlfriend sexy lingerie for Christmas?
News.com.au
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Translations for lingerie
Catalan
llenceria
Spanish
lencería
Lingerie through the time
Lingerie across language varieties
Australia
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common
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