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nightshirt

[ nahyt-shurt ]

noun

  1. a loose shirtlike garment reaching to the knees or lower, for wearing in bed.


nightshirt

/ ˈ²Ô²¹Éª³Ùˌʃɜ˳٠/

noun

  1. a loose knee-length or longer shirtlike garment worn in bed by men
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Origin of nightshirt1

First recorded in 1840–50; night + shirt
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"I was upstairs in my bedroom, I had my nightshirt on, I heard screaming from across the road saying 'someone's been stabbed, someone's been stabbed'," she said.

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Then here came the tailors for Mr. Cranston’s frock coat and morning coat and striped trousers and silk nightshirts with his initials sewed on.

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An analyst for Public Health – Seattle & King County, wearing a nightshirt, she went into “emergency management mode,†she said, checking his vital signs and trying to clear his airways.

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Augustus Seward, dressed in his nightshirt, raced to his father’s room and saw the shadows of two men fighting.

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He had traded his elegant evening suit for a breezy white nightshirt, the collar unbuttoned to reveal the smooth muscularity of his chest.

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