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Lingerie vs Pyjamas - What's the difference?

lingerie | pyjamas |

As nouns the difference between lingerie and pyjamas

is that lingerie is (uncountable) women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive while pyjamas is (clothes for sleeping in).

lingerie

English

Noun

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

    * negligee * nightie, nighty

    pyjamas

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (clothes for sleeping in).
  • * 1973 , John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini , Dover Publications, US, page 231:
  • The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas .
  • * 2007 , , Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue , page 178:
  • She wasn?t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk.
  • (loose trousers worn by men and women in the Far East).
  • * 2010 , Lucy Norris, Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value , Indiana University Press, page 34:
  • They too revert to simpler, non-western clothes—saris, dhotis , and pyjamas .
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