nightdress
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From removing a dead pigeon from a flooding gutter to being caught in her nightdress by mesmerised tourists, living in a castle is no fairy tale, she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022
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
I had been given a nightdress so covered with bows and frills that I couldn’t lie flat comfortably.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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
“Into your nightdresses, young ladies. The Shores of Sleep are approaching.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
She was in one of her flannel nightdresses.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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