Lingerie exclusively for more lightweight items of female undergarments. The French word in its original form derives from the old French word "linge", meaning 'linen'. So "faire le linge", comes to mean "do the laundry". In French the word "lingerie" applies to all undergarments for either sex. In English it means women's underwear or nightclothes. Lingerie as a word was first used to refer to underwear and bras in 1922. Informal usage suggests visually appealing or even erotic clothing. Although most lingerie is designed to be worn by women, some manufactures now design lingerie for men. The concept of lingerie is
Raccoon Similarly, Spanish colonists adopted the Spanish word from the Nahuatl of the Aztecs, meaning "[the] one who takes everything in its hands". In many languages, the raccoon is named for its characteristic dousing behavior in conjunction with that language's term for "bear", for example (‘wash-bear’) in German, "Huan Xiong" (浣熊 ‘wash-bear’) in Chinese, (‘little-bear washing’) in Italian, and "araiguma" ( ’washing-bear’) in Japanese. Alternatively, only the washing behavior might be referred to, as in Russian "poloskun" (, ‘rinser’). The colloquial abbreviation "coon" is used in words like "coonskin" for fur clothing and in phrases like "old coon" as a self-designation