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‖ négligé|negliʒe, ˈnɛglɪʒeɪ|
Also negligee, negligée.
[F., pa. pple. of négliger to neglect.]
Informal or unceremonious attire as worn by women when not in complete toilette. Cf. negligee.
1835Court Mag. VI. p. ii/2 Those for elegant negligé are of velvet, with satin linings and trimmings. 1865Ouida Strathmore I. vii. 113 No toilette was so becoming as the azure négligé of softest Indian texture. 1890Athenæum 4 Oct. 457/3 Lydie Vaillant comes in most compromising négligé from the chamber of Paul Astier. 1908R. W. Chambers Firing Line xviii. 313 Cecile, in distractingly pretty negligee, waved him audacious adieu from her window. 1945S. Lewis Cass Timberlane (1946) xliii. 308 Jinny weaved in, much too pretty in her négligé.
attrib.1859L. Oliphant China & Japan II. v. 113 The women wore a sort of jacket above their skirt, which was however constructed upon a rather negligé principle. 1913E. M. Forster Let. 1 Jan. in Hill of Devi (1953) 24 Her dress was on the negligée side, but she had not been intending to receive. 1917‘Taffrail’ Sub iv. 99 The members of the mess had purchased pictures, most of them of beautiful ladies in rather négligé raiment. 1954A. H. Gardiner Theory of Proper Names (ed. 2) p. v, The bulk of this book is an exact reprint of a..booklet published..in 1940. Doubtless owing to the circumstances of the times, but possibly also to the original publication's somewhat négligé apparel, this passed almost unnoticed. |