nightie
Americannoun
PLURAL
nightiesnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of nightie
First recorded in 1890–95; night(gown) + -ie
Example Sentences
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One day I sat with a woman in a nightie who needed help to be taken from her bed to the bathroom, just 8ft away.
From BBC
"I was in my nightie and he grabbed my hand, started pulling me out the bathroom. I was really trying to stop him, but I couldn't."
From BBC
Boyd remembers hosting pajama party sales events at his stores where customers would show up in outrageous sleepwear — see-through nighties and G-strings.
From Los Angeles Times
Cardigans and some of Martha's nighties are actually my gran's old stuff.
From Salon
"It's a lovely rise and fall, up and down like a bride's nightie," he told one nervous contestant.
From BBC
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