Meanings of neglige in English

It was as though Themis received her visitors in neglige and a dressing-gown.

This neglige costume was adhered to even in the ballroom.

In this neglige, Potemkin approached the door of his anteroom.

She had thrown herself upon the divan, in charming neglige.

Even for them to SPEAK to you in such a neglige costume is unbecoming.

Why, morning neglige might have been invented for you, if I may say so.

A trifle of neglige would have ruined his career.

In her neglige Miss Sontag is a hundred times more beautiful and pleasing than in full evening-dress.

The neglige dress she wore, naturally gave him an opportunity to compliment her upon her undiminished charms.

Such people peruse him in an enjoyably ruminative way at their meals, or read him in the neglige of retirement.

In a few moments the mistress and maid were equally happy, while the former was being decked in her magnificent neglige.

She is sitting in a neglige of white muslin and laces on a small red divan with her feet on a footstool that matches.

An 87-year-old Dublin man, who fractured his pelvis after falling while a patient in St James's Hospital, has lost a €60,000 damages claim for neglige(...)

How beautiful your ladyship will look in these negliges!

"Your royal highness is in a neglige," remonstrated Katharina; "I will have to dress you."

"Les manieres que l'on neglige comme de petites choses, sont souvent ce qui fait que les hommes decident de vous en bien ou en mal."