French lingerie: using the right word
After last week's Shoe Shopping Dictionary, here's the Lingerie Shopping Dictionary. It's from a French site but they have some pages in English:
You may know the word lingerie but if you are on a spree in France you’ll need to be a little more precise when searching for underwear…
Use the right word when you are shopping for French lingerie and you will look sublime, use the wrong one and you’ll be standing in your room in the least attractive garment on Earth – c‘est la vie !
First of all, here are a few basic words to use when buying French lingerie :
Underwear : the word lingerie is used in England to describe sexy underwear but you should know that (being generally sexy people) the French use the word to name all underwear – yes, even that pair of used-to-be-white-but-have-gone-an-ugly-grey-knickers !
