pajamas

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  1. Loose drawers or trousers, usually of silk or silk and cotton, tied round the waist with a cord, used by both sexes in India, and adopted from the Mohammedans by Europeans as a chamber garment. In colloquial or trade use the term is sometimes extended to include also covering for the upper part of the body.

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  • This time the pajamas were as green as Dellray's suit. —  The Bone Collector
  • Obama pajamas are another festive substitute for the presidential suite. —  CNN.com
  • They're as reassuring as footie pajamas, these retro cereal boxes that General Mills has re-created and distributed through Target. —  Brandweek - News and Features
  • For those who suspect Ashton Kutcher is in fact that annoying guy who won't leave your party even after everyone else has gone home and you're rinsing and recycling beer bottles in your pajamas, the confirmation seemed to come Friday. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • A tip off would be if his pillow case or pajamas were a little sweaty upon wakening. —  Free the Animal
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  1. Also paijamas, pyjamas; from Hind, pāëjāmā, in popular usepaijāmā, pājāmā, pajāmā, drawers (see def.), literally ‘leggarments,’ from pāë (from Persian pāi), foot, leg (= English foot), + jāma, garment.
 

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