nighty
Americannoun
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He kicked with demonic glee under my hideously ruffled maternity nighty as I masqueraded in the synthetic approximation of Mia Farrow’s pixie cut.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2015
First concrete objective is some new standard of international exchange to stabilize nighty currencies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last May, when the House of Commons preferred the nighty brilliance of Mr. Churchill to the dignified ineffectuality of Neville Chamberlain, it acquiesced in a revolution in British politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Araminta ran upstairs and got her nighty and her little flannel gown.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk by Wheeler, Daniel Edwin
So pretty soon down come Margaret with Archibald, full of the Old Scratch, as usual, dressed up gay in a kind of red blanket nighty, with a rope around the middle of it.
From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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