nightdress
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One morning the duchess was dashing about in her nightdress when she realised she had an audience.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022
While in graduate school in New York City, she experienced her first manic episode; she stayed awake for four days and found herself walking around Manhattan barefoot in a nightdress at 4 a.m.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021
Pulling her nightdress down, making herself decent, she turned on her side to try to sleep again.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
“I boiled up from bed/in my enormous nightdress, with my lungs full of burning/chrysanthemums.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
She folded back her scrap quilt, and up she rose, slipping out of her nightdress.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
A list of items almost 100 pages long is being circulated that features meat, dairy, fruit, wine and spirits, toilet seats, wood, coats, swimwear, nightdresses, shoes, chandeliers and lawnmowers.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Property manager James Taylor told jurors that he encountered two Chinese women in nightdresses during an inspection of Singh's Albion Street flat.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
Also woven in were diamante-encrusted nods to nursing bras, ribboned christening shawls, and coats and button-up nightdresses in prints inspired by vintage pastel bedsheets.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
“Into your nightdresses, young ladies. The Shores of Sleep are approaching.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
She was in one of her flannel nightdresses.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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