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Off-colour article repeatedly found amongst lingerie? (5,3,7)

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I believe the answer is:

under the weather

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'repeatedly found amongst lingerie?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'off-colour article' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'article' could be 'the' (the definite article in English) and 'the' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for under the weather that I've seen before include "Sickening" , "Indisposed" , "Sick" , "Seedy" , "where you have to look for this crossword?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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