negligee
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Blurring those realms — which the original director, Harold Prince, had taken pains to keep separate — turned Sally, a Weimar party girl in Joe Masteroff’s book, into a neither-world negligee zombie.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
In an essay published a decade and a half later, Fisher wrote that the iron negligee was “what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019
Swanning around in astonishing high-femme outfits—to comfort a child after a nightmare, she wears an emerald velvet robe over a peach negligee, with cork-heeled platforms—she reads like a little girl’s notion of a grown woman.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018
As Goldberg tells the story, he was in Greenwich Village shopping for a negligee for his wife when his pager went off.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2017
I suspect it is the property of Countess Andrenyi, since her luggage contained only a chiffon negligee so. elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing gown.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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