Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women; a nightgown.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A nightgown.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
Etymologies
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Examples
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In spite of the cold, I was barefoot and wearing only a coarse white cotton nightrobe.
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In disarrayed nightrobe I leap to bare feet and essay
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He took the advice and Cornelia dried herself before wrapping herself up in her thick nightrobe.
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She moved quickly to the window and pushed it up, then turned away, picking up her discarded nightrobe and throwing it around her shoulders.
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When Lord Fenner entered the room, dressed in his nightrobe, Halla's heart skipped at the sight of his angry, stiff expression.
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When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the neck had sent forth drops.
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Cataldise, wearing a nightrobe, sat on a footstool in front of her favorite fireside armchair.
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Though she was well into middle age, her body was still erect and firm, beautiful in her silken nightrobe.
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His eyes were fixed on me instead; or, to be specific, on the spot where my nightrobe parted, several inches lower than strict modesty might dictate, strict modesty hardly seeming necessary in bed with one's husband.
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Plainly embarrassed by the necessity of riding astride, she kept tucking the folds of her nightrobe under her thighs, in a vain attempt to hide the fact that she had legs.
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