| The door was opened by an old woman with caked on make-up and a frilly peignoir. |
| The corset under a peignoir ''is something French women did not do,'' she said. |
| She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her peignoir. |
| Had I a palette I could match the blue of the peignoir with the faint grey sky. |
| Then she scrambled into some clothes and a peignoir, and went straight to his bedside. |
| I found her dressed in a sort of enormous red peignoir, her arms bare, and already fully coiffed. |
