She decided that on the morrow she would dress herself 'properly,' and never again wear a peignoir; the peignoir and all that it represented, disgusted her.
In the end Sophia arose and put on the peignoir which she had almost determined never to wear again.
The white silk blouse," she said; "the white peignoirwith swansdown.
I sit as at this moment, by my little table, my taper illuminated, in my peignoir (you would be pleased with my peignoir, my poor Marguerite!
Besides, the peignoir weighs nothing; a feather, a puff of vapour.
One, presumably, wore a briefpeignoir with a Paris label; the other, a substantial bungalow apron from a department store basement.
The Colonel's lady in her Parisian peignoir and Judy O'Grady in her sleazy slip were sisters under the skin.
So she put on her slippers andpeignoir and stole down-stairs.
Each time he saw a woman in her peignoir or kimono he felt as though he had committed a sacrilege.
Very lovely she looked, the peignoir falling from her white shoulders, the soft candle-light illuminating and yet concealing in its vague shadows the beauty of face and figure.
With the other hand she drew the peignoir about her, a vivid crimson wave rushed over her whole body.
In an exquisite room, where each detail was in the best of taste and very rich, Carmen, in a peignoirtrimmed with lace, was half lying on a couch.
Francine, obeying an impulse, had thrown on a peignoir of white cashmere, and appeared, white and trembling, at the door.
Ma'ame Pelagie had been sitting beside the bed in herpeignoir and slippers.
The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them.
In response to his confusing summons, she stumbled to herpeignoir and slipped it on.
She was wearing her pinkpeignoir with white frills at the neck and wrists.
Their utterly incurious indifference to Rachel in her peignoir at the window was somehow harrowing.
Her peignoir being very near to the purple-green flames that folded themselves round the asbestos of the stove, she reflected that the material was probably inflammable, and that a careless movement might cause it to be ignited.
She held out the pale green silk peignoir in which I had first seen Miss Fielding.
She was clad in a bewilderingly feminine peignoir of lace and embroidery, open at the neck, and covered with another long, straightly hanging garment of shimmering pale-green silk, richly decorated with odd patterns.
His neighbor, who had probably heard him come upstairs and ring, donned a peignoir and left her room, candle in hand.
Léonie heaved a more profound sigh than before, and as she had no handkerchief, she lifted a corner of her peignoir and put it to her eyes.
They contain a superabundance of every article supposed to be necessary for the toilette of a nouvelle mariée, from the rich robes of velvet down to the simple peignoir de matin.
Having come out of the bathroom, she did not want to wait to be wiped, and scarcely covered by her peignoir she stooped over the stone and examined it.
Her bare breast which rolled out from under the lace of her peignoir was pressing against my chest.
The white peignoir she had taken off when she dressed for her flight lay in a heap upon the floor where she had thrown it in her haste.
She wore a loose peignoir of white, with lace and white silk ribbons, such as none but perfect blondes can wear.
Occasionally, gazing entranced before some bewildering evening gown, a peignoir all lace and cloud, a rope of milky pearls, she felt this sensation so compellingly that she would retreat breathlessly, trembling from head to foot.
The peignoir lay spread out ready in the dressing-room.
Lady Clifford was sitting before her rather elaborate dressing-table, partly dressed, wrapped in a peignoir of heavy white crêpe.
She got up, smoothed her hair automatically, drew her peignoir close about her, and walked out of the room like a woman in a dream.
I don't know that she looked less charming now in her school-dress, a kind of careless peignoir of a dark-blue material, dimly and dingily plaided with black.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peignoir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
