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Meanings of neglige in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wrapper"
Examples for "wrapper"
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There's still the today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrapper idea.
2
Or better yet, you might create an object wrapper such as this:
3
Björk's new album Biophilia delivers song apps within a main wrapper app.
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The effort of tearing open the poly wrapper set my heart pounding.
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On the back of the wrapper I had endorsed the following words:
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Sidney examined with some dismay the elaborate negligee garments in her hand.
2
He had brought a present for Angus, and a negligee for me.
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I should've said it felt like a silk negligee trimmed in fur.
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She was pulling at the long broad blue ribbons of her negligee.
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He felt the warm silk of Eve's negligee caress his bare back.
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When she came in she was still in her pink quilted housecoat.
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She tried to cover her leg but the housecoat slid off again.
3
The woman was old, she was dressed in some kind of housecoat.
4
She's wearing a housecoat over pajamas, and her hair is a mess.
5
She was wearing a wet yellow housecoat that clung to her body.
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Beatrice, already ghostly in a white peignoir, turned the color of lead.
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Maud appeared at the door, smiling, and arrayed in a peignoir.
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So she put on her slippers and peignoir and stole down-stairs.
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I lifted the top one up, a light blue, with a matching peignoir.
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Perhaps the most striking portion of the scenery was Helen's peignoir.
Usage of neglige in English
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It was as though Themis received her visitors in neglige and a dressing-gown.
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This neglige costume was adhered to even in the ballroom.
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In this neglige, Potemkin approached the door of his anteroom.
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She had thrown herself upon the divan, in charming neglige.
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Even for them to SPEAK to you in such a neglige costume is unbecoming.
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Why, morning neglige might have been invented for you, if I may say so.
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A trifle of neglige would have ruined his career.
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In her neglige Miss Sontag is a hundred times more beautiful and pleasing than in full evening-dress.
9
The neglige dress she wore, naturally gave him an opportunity to compliment her upon her undiminished charms.
10
Such people peruse him in an enjoyably ruminative way at their meals, or read him in the neglige of retirement.
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In a few moments the mistress and maid were equally happy, while the former was being decked in her magnificent neglige.
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She is sitting in a neglige of white muslin and laces on a small red divan with her feet on a footstool that matches.
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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(...)
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How beautiful your ladyship will look in these negliges!
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"Your royal highness is in a neglige," remonstrated Katharina; "I will have to dress you."
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"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."
About this term
Frequent collocations
Neglige through the time