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negligee

[neg-li-zhey, neg-li-zhey] / ˌnɛg lɪˈʒeɪ, ˈnɛg lɪˌʒeɪ /


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There was no more of the Sort, or you should have had enough for a Negligee or Suit.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

A poem printed in New York in 1756 has these lines:— "Put on her a Shepherdee A Short Sack or Negligee Ruffled high to keep her warm Eight or ten about an arm."

From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green




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