Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A loose-fitting garment consisting of trousers and a jacket, worn for sleeping or lounging. Often used in the plural.
- n. Loose-fitting trousers worn in the Far East by men and women. Often used in the plural.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries
- n. (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers
Etymologies
- Hindi pāijāma, loose-fitting trousers : Persian pāī, leg (from Middle Persian; see ped- in Indo-European roots) + Persian jāmah, garment. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She probably uses them for dust rags, or maybe she gives them away to some girl who sleeps only in pajama bottoms.”
“Eight-year-old Bruno and his twelve-year-old sister Gretel find themselves alone with their mother in a cold, modernist estate-kept company only by soldiers, a stray inmate servant or two, far-off glimpses of "pajama" - clad "farmers," and a frequent plume of acrid, pungent black smoke.”
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“I linked to an article in The Village Voice (hardly a right wing media outlet) in their article they listed some comments from some place called pajama media ...”
“(Perhaps she might also be interested in a little something we like to call pajama jeans?)”
“When I was in college, there was a guy known as the pajama man because he wore pajamas all the time.”
“_robe de chambre_, which the girls best liked to call a pajama, and now slipped her feet into a pair of little Turkish slippers, all toe and sole, and opening the communicating door, peered into the library.”
“Now I opine (I have stolen that word from Irvin) that under those circumstances, or something approximating them, such as pajama trousers, or the neglect to conceal that portion of a shirt not intended for the public eye, almost any man of my acquaintance would have made a wild bolt for the nearest bar, hissing like a teakettle.”
“One of the final class projects is an article of clothing, such as pajama pants or a skirt.”
“The endearing notion of interactive cultural democracy has always been a major selling-point of the internet: what I say is as valid as what you say, even if you can spell the word "pajama" better than me.”
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