lingerie

See also: Lingerie

English

Assorted lingerie styles

Etymology

Borrowed from French lingerie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæn.ʒə.ɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˌlɑn.(d)ʒəˈɹeɪ/, /ˈlɑn.(d)ʒə.ɹi/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

lingerie (usually uncountable, plural lingeries)

1. Women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
2. (dated) Linen goods collectively.
   • 1906, Dry Goods Guide (volumes 17-18, page 70)

     Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.

Translations

women's underwear or nightclothes

• Arabic: مَلَابِس اَلنِّسَاء اَلتَّحْتِيَّة pl (malābis an-nisāʔ at-taḥtiyya)
• Bengali: ল্যানজারি (lênjari)
• Catalan: llenceria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女內衣／女内衣, 女内衣 (nǚ nèiyì)

• Czech: prádélko n
• Dutch: lingerie (nl)
• Esperanto: ekscitvesto
• Finnish: alusvaatteet (fi) pl
• French: lingerie (fr) f
• Galician: brancura f, lenzaría f
• German: Damenunterwäsche f, Dessous (de) n pl, Lingerie f
• Hebrew: הלבשה תחתונה f (halbashá taḥtoná)
• Hungarian: fehérnemű (hu)
• Irish: éadaí cnis m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: biancheria (it) f, lingerie (it) f
• Japanese: ランジェリー (ranjerī)
• Korean: 란제리 (ranjeri), 세탁소 (ko) (setakso)
• Lithuanian: moteriškas apatinis trikotažas
• Maltese: ħwejjeġ ta’ taħt fini pl
• Manx: fo-eaddagh ben m
• Persian: زیر پوشی زن (zīr pūši zan)
• Polish: bielizna (damska) f, odzież nocna f
• Portuguese: lingerie (pt) f, camisola (pt) (Brazil)
• Russian: да́мское бельё n (dámskoje belʹjó), же́нское ни́жнее бельё n (žénskoje nížneje belʹjó)
• Spanish: ropa blanca f, ropa interior f, ropa íntima f, lencería (es) f
• Swedish: damunderkläder pl
• Vietnamese: đồ lót
• West Frisian: linzjery

See also

• negligee
• nightie, nighty

Further reading

• lingerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From linge +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ʒ.ʁi/

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries)

1. linen room
2. lingerie (clothing)

Further reading

• “lingerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

lingerie f (uncountable)

1. lingerie

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French lingerie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɐ̃ʒeˈʁi/

Noun

lingerie f (plural s)

1. women's underwear

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lingerie.