Crossword-Solution: PEIGNOIRS 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

ALL: Pretty brook, thy dream is over, For thy love is but a rover; Sad the lot of poplar trees, Courted by a fickle breeze! (Enter the MAJOR-GENERAL's daughters, led by MABEL, all in white peignoirs and night-caps, and carrying lighted candles.) GIRLS: Now what is this, and what is that, and why does father leave his rest At such a time of night as this, so very incompletely dressed? Dear father is, and always was, the most methodical of men! It's his invariable rule to go to bed at half-past ten.

This wandering in peignoirs would continue till three o'clock, and then Laurence might say, as if nerving herself to an unusual and immense effort: "I must be dressed by five o'clock.

Yet these were the women who had saved her life, who between them had put her into a cold bath every three hours night and day for weeks! Surely it was impossible after that to despise them for shiftlessness and talkative idling in peignoirs; impossible to despise them for anything whatever! But Sophia, conscious of her inheritance of strong and resolute character, did despise them as poor things.

The man, it seems, made such a devil of a racket when he came home with the news that the whole house was up in pajamas and peignoirs.

Among her peignoirs and _sautes de lit_, she possessed one of softest _crêpe de chine_ which fell in straight Greek folds, and was drawn in above the waist by a golden girdle.