nightdress
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Origin of nightdress
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One morning the duchess was dashing about in her nightdress when she realised she had an audience.
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
She had made it for Charlie because he, too, was outgrowing his clothes, and the old wool shirt their father had left behind hung on him like a nightdress.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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