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peignoir

peignoir noun: a long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.

peignoir: a long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching...
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Noun

peignoir (plural peignoirs)

  1. A long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.
  2. A cape worn to protect the clothes while having one's hair cut.

peignoir meaning in Tamil and Arabic

peignoir in Tamil

மகளிர் அங்கி

peignoir in Arabic

a long outer garment for women
بَنْوَار banwār

Forms of peignoir

pluralpeignoirs

Origin of peignoir

Borrowed from French peignoir.

Questions about peignoir

What does peignoir mean?
Peignoir means a long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.
What is peignoir in Tamil?
Peignoir in Tamil is மகளிர் அங்கி. See Peignoir meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is peignoir?
Peignoir is a noun.
What is the plural of peignoir?
The plural of peignoir is peignoirs.

Words near peignoir in the dictionary

  1. Peifers
  2. Peiffer
  3. Peiffers
  4. Peigan
  5. Peigans
  6. peignoir
  7. peignoirs
  8. Peikan
  9. Peikantang
  10. Peikoff
  11. peil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peignoir (page history and authors); peignoir (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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