nightie
Americannoun
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nighties
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of nightie
First recorded in 1890–95; night(gown) + -ie
Example Sentences
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I flung back the covers and danced in my nightie.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
A fingerprint left at a Perth house by a male intruder dressed in a woman’s nightie in 1988 eventually led police to Edwards years later.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
I was in my nightie and barefoot as I walked the few steps down the landing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2020
Lena Dunham has opened up about her battle with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome after she was photographed in a nightie with a walking stick.
From Fox News ● Nov. 3, 2019
Sophie, crouching on the floor of the cave in her nightie, gazed back at him through thick steel-rimmed glasses.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Their team – all dressed in tasselled cowboy outfits – have nabbed the prize for best-dressed, tying with another team decked out in pink nighties and platinum blonde wigs.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Cardigans and some of Martha's nighties are actually my gran's old stuff.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
Neither are they innocent victims in white nighties.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
When you want to go from ripped tights, nighties and smudged lipstick to something more suitable for the red carpet, Versace is the label.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017
Their clotheslines are strung with underpants, nighties, socks, a display of soiled intimacy, which they have washed and rinsed, plunging their hands into the gray curdled water.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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