peignoir

She wore a rich peignoir, and her blond hair was half covered by a lace cap: in her attire she was, as always, an elegant woman, fit to figure in a picture of modern aristocratic life: but I asked myself how that face of hers could ever have seemed to me the face of a woman born of woman, with memories of childhood, capable of pain, needing to be fondled?

"Rather than opt for fashionable Farrow and Ball paint in favoured shades such as Wevet, Peignoir and Pavilion Grey and Salmon, the Sussexes are much in favour of The Organic & Natural Paint Co's Auro range for the nursery."

Ce meme flot sanguin parcourra l'oeuvre de Zola, comme dans la scene d'accouchement de la femme de Lazare, a laquelle fait echo la scene de l'avortement de Voyage, ou Louise "etait demeuree a la meme place, tremblante, regardant ce ruissellement qui sortait d'elle, avec la terreur de voir le peignoir et le tapis inondes de son sang" (La joie de vivre 247).

With a journalistic tinge of humour, he reproduces terms like 'fiendish', 'flagitious' and 'peignoir' used liberally throughout the verdict.

About the anorexic daughter of one Elysian judge: "A principled hunger strike, like Gandhi's, which was aimed at achieving something in the outside world, looked very impure and compromised compared to a hunger strike whose sole object was to stop eating: this was the white on white of the hunger strike, the moment when it became abstract and transcended the clumsy literalness of merely representing one thing or another." Or: "'Lots of love' between former lovers was of course less love than 'love' alone." But there are plenty of thuds, too, like Katherine's postcoital reveries: "Complacencies of the peignoir, or power shower: which word cluster would get her?"

The corset under a peignoir ''is something French women did not do,'' she said.

While Bride and Owl brings to mind the refined influence of Manet's Young Lady in 1866 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)--a titillating allegory of the senses displaying model Victorine Meurent, along with a parrot, in her fashionably soft pink and orange peignoir, Hartigan exchanges the peignoir's grace and fullness for her own bride's starkly compressed, angular sections; with the inclusion of an owl, symbol of solitude, darkness, or betrayal, Hartigan proposes a somber bridal companion (41)

aircraft in WWII) were compared to roles implied by Mimi Smith's 1966 Steel Wool Peignoir (sheer pink with lace, thickly trimmed in steel wool; see http://spencerart.ku.edu/peignoir).

I found her dressed in a sort of enormous red peignoir, her arms bare, and already fully coiffed.