nightgown

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Alice in her thin nightgown could be seen sitting by the open window The nightgown, the small, slender body showing through, the hair, platted for the night, in two pig-tails that hung forward, one over each small breast, the tired face between the parted hair made Alice look childlike and pathetic Gwendolen had a pang of compassion Dear lamb," she said.

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  1. noun A loose garment worn in bed by women and girls. Also called nightdress.

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  • She did not move about their very single bedchamber a great deal, he noticed, because her nightgown was at least three inches longer than her person. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
  • He was very clean and dressed in a white nightgown, a white robe. —  The Shipping News
  • She looked amazingly enticing in her prim white nightgown, her long, slim legs outlined against the fabric. —  mb_body.htm
  • He came out in his nightgown, and insisted upon our staying to dine with him--[worthy old man; a word of him, were this Letter done]. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • She searched for, and found, his mouth in the darkness But his hand did not pause when the nightgown was raised to her hips. —  Mary Balogh - The Incurable Matchmaker
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