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Definition: Peignoir |
PeignoirNoun1. A loose dressing gown for women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peignoir" was first used: 1835. (references) |
Etymology: Peignoir \Pei`gnoir"\, noun. [French expression, from peigner to comb, from Latin expression pectinare. See Pectinate.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PeignoirSynonyms: housecoat (n), neglige (n), negligee (n), wrapper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peignoir |
| Non-English Usage: "Peignoir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (undress), French (dishabille, dressing gown, robe, wrap, wrapper), Portuguese (deshabille). |
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| "Peignoir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peignoir" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
peignoir | 50 |
peignoir set | 17 |
bridal peignoir | 4 |
bondage peignoir | 2 |
belgique eponge imprimé peignoir | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "peignoir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | penjuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пеньоар (morning gown, robe, wrapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Frisiermantel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pongyola (banian, deshabille, dressing gown, dressing-gown, floppy, housecoat, morning dress, negligee, sloppy, tea-gown, undress, wrapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vestaglia (bathrobe, dressing gown, négligé). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eignoirpay pião com bico de metal. (various references) neglijeu (neglige). (various references) пеньюар (dressing-gown). (various references) penjoar, kućna haljina (bathrobe, dressing gown, housecoat, night-robe). (various references) pienador, salto de cama (dressing gown, négligé, neglige, negligee), bata (coat, dressing gown, négligé, negligee, overalls, undress, wrapper). (various references) penjoar, kamkofta. (various references) sabahlık (deshabille, dressing gown, gown, housecoat, morning gown, neglige, negligee, robe, wrapper), robdöşambr. (various references) пеньюар (neglige, nightgown, night-rail, wrapper). (various references) áo choà ng tắm của đà n bà . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | peignouer. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peignoir": peignoirs. (additional references) | |
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"Peignoir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baignoire, pegnoir, Pergnier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: epigoni, perigon, pierogi, pirogen, ripieno. | |
-2 letters: epigon, eringo, ignore, origin, orpine, pieing, pigeon, pinger, pinier, pirogi, poring, region, riping, roping. | |
-3 letters: genii, genip, genro, gipon, giron, goner, gripe, groin, grope, iring, irone, opine, oping, orpin, pengo, piing, pingo, pirog, prion, prone, prong, reign, renig, repin, ripen. | |
-4 letters: ergo, gien, girn, giro, goer, gone, gore. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: peignoirs. | |
+2 letters: impowering, peroxiding, pioneering, preboiling, reimposing, repositing. | |
+3 letters: epeirogenic, interloping, interposing, overpricing, overprizing, overtipping, pirouetting, preignition, recompiling, redisposing, reimporting, repolishing, serpiginous, temporising, temporizing. | |
+4 letters: depolarizing, dopaminergic, epeirogenies, fireproofing, impregnation, jeopardising, jeopardizing, misreporting, overpraising, overprinting, overslipping, personifying, polymerising, polymerizing, precognition, precognitive, predigestion, predisposing, preignitions, premigration, premodifying, premonishing, prenotifying, preordaining, previsioning, primogenitor, profiteering, pyrogenicity, reappointing, redepositing, repolarizing, supercoiling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 69 67 6E 6F 69 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .. --. -. --- .. .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101110 01101111 01101001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e i g n o i r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0069 0067 006E 006F 0069 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071757380817584 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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