Word: peignoired
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...hobby is a hectic pleasure sandwiched in between her old ones. She spends about a fortnight on each picture, working at odd hours in a spare bedroom, her bracelets jangling and her lace peignoir smeared with paint. It irritates her a bit when friends accuse her of painting in a deliberately "naive" way. "I do my best," she says earnestly. "I really...
...joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel and Appurtenances." Sample definitions...
...Deauville a slender woman appeared on the beach in a bathing-suit of green-stitched ostrich plumes, tossed from her shoulders a corresponding peignoir, plunged into the surge. In a moment she emerged, her costume as bold as ever. The feathers, put together with a new waterproofing process, shed water like a duck's back...
...impotent rage; while the listless peignoir...