Lingerie is a term for fashionable women's underwear. It derives from the French word linge, "washables" - as in faire le linge, "do the laundry" - and from lin for washable linen, the fabric from which European underwear were made before the introduction of cotton from Egypt and India. While the term in French applies to all underwear for either gender, in English it is applied specifically to those women's underwear designed to be visually erotic, typically incorporating materials such as Lycra, nylon, polyester, satin, lace and silk and not applied to functional cotton underwear. It is commonly pronounced in English with a faux French pronunciation.
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