See also: negligee, Negligee, and négligée

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɛɡlɪʒeɪ/

Noun

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negligée (plural negligées)

  1. Alternative form of négligée
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 269:
      '[H]er luggage contained only a chiffon negligée so elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing-gown.'