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A peignoir is a long outer garment for women usually sheer and made of chiffon. Peignoirs are usually sold with matching nightgown, negligee 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 depicts 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. A 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 Mrs. Peignoir.
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