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- adjective Dressed in a
nightshirt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Richard Outcault, a newspaper illustrator who began his career illustrating science articles in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, created the yellow-nightshirted imp who in 1895 would become the popular comic strip character the Yellow Kid.
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Richard Outcault, a newspaper illustrator who began his career illustrating science articles in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, created the yellow-nightshirted imp who in 1895 would become the popular comic strip character the Yellow Kid.
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Stuart had turned himself upside down and was quite invisible except for his little nightshirted bottom sticking out of the covers where his head ought to have been; Fee found his head touching his knees, and as usual marveled that he had not suffocated.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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He leaped from the bed, with his rifle out in front of him - white-nightshirted and unexpected - sudden enough to scare the wits out of anything that had them.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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