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
History of cricket earliest definite reference,it was spelled "creckett". The name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch "krick"("-e"), meaning a stick; or the Old English "cricc" or "cryce" meaning a crutch or staff, or the French word "criquet" meaning a wooden post. The Middle Dutch word "krickstoel" means a long low stool used for kneeling in church; this resembled the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket. According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of the University of Bonn, "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey, "met de (krik ket)sen" (i.e., "with the stick chase").