nightdress
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nightdress (plural nightdresses)
- 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., Melbourne, Vic.: 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
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