9 September 2017

peignoir

[peyn-wahr, pen-, peyn-wahr, pen-]

noun

1. a woman’s dressing gown.
2. a cloak or gown of terry cloth for wear after swimming or, especially in France, after the bath.

Origin of peignoir

1825-1835; < French: literally, comber, i.e., something worn while one’s hair is being combed, equivalent to peign(er) to comb (<
Late Latin pectināre; see pecten) + -oir < Latin -ōrium -ory1

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Historical Examples

So I had to put on her peignoir, and tidy her up, and arrange her hair just as I have done.
A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
Guy De Maupassant

Her peignoir of beige, embroidered with red silk, was evidently of Parisian manufacture.
The Downfall
Emile Zola

Besides, the peignoir weighs nothing; a feather, a puff of vapour.
Rita
Laura E. Richards

Yes, but you will not care to go to the dining-room in your peignoir?
The Son of Monte Christo
Jules Lermina

Ma’ame Plagie had been sitting beside the bed in her peignoir and slippers.
Bayou Folk
Kate Chopin

Anagram

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Today’s quote

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.

– Leo Tolstoy

On this day

9 September 1543 – Mary Stuart crowned ‘Queen of Scots’. She was 9 months old.

9 September 1828 – birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, (‘Anna Karenina‘, ‘War and Peace‘). Died 20 November 1910.

9 September 1890 – birth of Harlan Sanders who eventually becomes a Colonel and chickens throughout Kentucky, and ultimately the rest of the world, are never the same again as he invents Kentucky Fried Chicken. Died 16 December 1980.

9 September 2004 – Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, bombed. 10 people killed.