nightdress

See also: night-dress

English

Alternative forms

• night-dress (archaic)

Etymology

From night +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.dɹes/
• (Standard Southern British, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪt.dɹɛs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

nightdress (plural nightdresses)

1. A nightgown; (usually female) attire designed to be worn to bed.

   She was too modest to come downstairs dressed only in her nightdress.

   • 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter VII (Light in the Darkness), page 44:

     The window of the room was open, and beside the window, all huddled up, lay the body of a man in his nightdress.

Translations

sleeping garment usually worn by women — see nightgown