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Bikini vs Lingerie - What's the difference?

bikini | lingerie |

As a proper noun bikini

is bikini atoll.

As a noun lingerie is

(uncountable) women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

bikini

English

(wikipedia bikini)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.
  • * 1950 , "In the Swim", Time , 2 Oct 1950:
    • Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * monokini

    Derived terms

    * bikini bottom * bikini line * bikini wax * flagkini * mankini * monokini * tankini * trikini

    lingerie

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) Women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.

    • See also

    * negligee * nightie, nighty

    External links

    * ("lingerie" on Wikipedia) * underwear ----