nightdress
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While in graduate school in New York City, she experienced her first manic episode; she stayed awake for four days and found herself walking around Manhattan barefoot in a nightdress at 4 a.m.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021
And most fragile and compelling of all: sitting in a high chair and wearing a nightdress, a monkey reaches out its hand to grasp the arm of the otherwise unseen person who is spoon-feeding it.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
“I boiled up from bed/in my enormous nightdress, with my lungs full of burning/chrysanthemums.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
A woman who sleepwalked to a supermarket in just her nightdress looking for a watermelon has said she thinks her subconscious "got hungry".
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2017
She put on her long dressing gown over her nightdress and stood there with the back of the gown draped over her arm.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
A list of items almost 100 pages long is being circulated that features meat, dairy, fruit, wine and spirits, toilet seats, wood, coats, swimwear, nightdresses, shoes, chandeliers and lawnmowers.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Property manager James Taylor told jurors that he encountered two Chinese women in nightdresses during an inspection of Singh's Albion Street flat.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
Also woven in were diamante-encrusted nods to nursing bras, ribboned christening shawls, and coats and button-up nightdresses in prints inspired by vintage pastel bedsheets.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Our nightdresses picked up mud and sticks and leaves.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
“Into your nightdresses, young ladies. The Shores of Sleep are approaching.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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