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lingerie

[lahn-zhuh-rey, lan-zhuh-ree, -juh-; Fr. lanzh^uh-ree]

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noun

underwear, sleepwear, and other items of intimate apparel worn by women.

Archaic. linen goods in general.

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adjective

having the qualities of lingerie; lacy or frilly.

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Origin:
1825–35; < French, equivalent to Middle French linge linen (< Latin līneus of flax; see line¹) + -erie -ery

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For modern men, there are modern challengesConsider the purchase of lingerie.

It featured the same beautiful women seen in many other places, including lingerie catalogues sent to every home.

She began regaling me with descriptions of herexpanding lingerie collection.

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For modern men, there are modern challengesConsider the purchase of lingerie.

It featured the same beautiful women seen in many other places, including lingerie catalogues sent to every home.

She began regaling me with descriptions of herexpanding lingerie collection.

The road between designing lingerie and outer wear is not well traveled.

To brazenly steal from two great thinkers: brevity is the soul of lingerie and of wit.

Other pictures showed them in lingerie with dollar bills tucked into the underwear.

Consumer sales may be sagging, but lingerie is booming.

Fashioned out of heated sugar and milk, this lip-smacking lingerie will spice up the end of any meal.

Nothing is more essential to the proper costuming of any figure, and especially of a poor one, than the corsets and the lingerie.

It was the lingerie maker's only foray onto the world's biggest advertising stage until its return this year.

She designs luxurious silk blouses, lingerie and evening wear adorned with.

She began regaling me with descriptions of her expanding lingerie collection.

The latest comer in the field of lingerie is the much-talked-of, much-advertised under-bodice.

And where better to begin than with the foundation of any eye-catching ensemble: lingerie.

Less typical were dozens of models on the showroom floor wearing skimpy lingerie.

Apparently, all the rest of us get is lingerie spam.

It's got a lot of nudity, incendiary lingerie and toe-sucking in it, and probably some bluenose would appoint.

Never ever ever ever put decent lingerie into a mechanized washer or dryer.

She also had a career as a costume and lingerie designer.

But she believes that lingerie has played a sociological role.

Call it the lingerie look for windows: one curtain panel even.

The lid lifts to reveal a silver-leafed lingerie storage compartment.

But a view of corsets and lingerie through the ages it is not.

The new store will have several firsts, including a lingerie line, fine jewelry and made-to-order suits for women.

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lingerie (ˈlænʒərɪ)

—n
1.	women's underwear and nightwear
2.	archaic linen goods collectively

[C19: from French, from linge, from Latin līneus linen, from līnum flax]

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lingerie

1835 (but not in widespread use until 1852), from Fr. lingerie "things made of linen," also "laundry room, linen shop" (15c.), from O.Fr. linge "linen" (12c.), from L. lineus (adj.) "of linen," from linum "flax, linen" (see linen). Originally introduced in Eng. as a euphemism

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