Definition of "negligee" []

• A woman's loose dressing gown, often of soft, delicate fabric. (noun)
• Informal or incomplete attire. (noun)

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• "She had on what could not, by any stretch of his imagination, be termed a negligee, nor on the other hand, could anyone call it a bathrobe."
• "She was wearing some kind of negligee, Alexei could see, but it was nothing more than a swathe of silk, one strap loosened from her shoulder."
• "A husband walks into Victoria's Secret to purchase a sheer negligee for his wife."