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Peignoir
A peignoir is a long outer garment for women usually sheer and made of chiffon. Peignoirs are usually sold with matching nightgownnegligee or  panties but are often worn with no underwear.Also described as a garment worn when brushing the hair. From French peigner, to comb the hair, from Latin pectināre, from pecten, pectin-, comb.] This dipicts a dressing gown or robe.It is repeatedly mentioned in the novel The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, somewhat like a show of when she is awakening. Peignoir is also notably featured in the opening stanza of the poem Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens and in opening chapters of the novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald where it is described in the context of beach attire. In "Fawlty Towers" a flirty Frenchwoman is called Madame Peignoir.
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Peignoir
Le peignoir est un vêtement ample à manches longues, avec parfois une ceinture à la taille pour le maintenir. Il s'arrête au genou et peut comporter des poches plaquées.
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Peignoir
Peignoir (även penjoar; franska peignoir, av peigner, kamma) är en löst fallande morgonklänning för kvinnor. Ursprungligen användes den när en kvinna skulle kamma och vårda sitt hår, därav benämningen kamkofta. Peignoiren kan variera i längd, men den brukar vanligtvis vara fotsid. Den bärs vanligen över ett nattlinne.
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peignoir
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peignoir
(م.ل ).قطيفه لباسى زنانه ،لباس خانگى زنانه

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