intimate apparel

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   women's underwear and nightclothes

   Synonymslingerie

   Broaderunderwear

   Narrowernightgownundies

Questions about intimate apparel

What does intimate apparel mean?

intimate apparel means "women's underwear and nightclothes".

What is another word for intimate apparel?

Close synonyms include lingerie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intimate apparel a common word?

intimate apparel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.