Definitions for peignoir

peignoir peign·oir

Spelling: [peyn-wahr, pen-, peyn-wahr, pen-]
IPA: /peɪnˈwɑr, pɛn-, ˈpeɪn wɑr, ˈpɛn-/

Peignoir is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in peignoir (egiinopr).

Definitions for peignoir

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

1825-35; 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

Examples for peignoir

Yes, but you will not care to go to the dining-room in your peignoir?

So I had to put on her peignoir, and tidy her up, and arrange her hair just as I have done.

In response to his confusing summons, she stumbled to her peignoir and slipped it on.

So she put on her slippers and peignoir and stole down-stairs.

Ma'ame Plagie had been sitting beside the bed in her peignoir and slippers.

Besides, the peignoir weighs nothing; a feather, a puff of vapour.

Had I a palette I could match the blue of the peignoir with the faint grey sky.

Perhaps the most striking portion of the scenery was Helen's peignoir.

Then she scrambled into some clothes and a peignoir, and went straight to his bedside.

Her peignoir of beige, embroidered with red silk, was evidently of Parisian manufacture.

Word Value for peignoir
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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