nightgown

"I watched as my mother is standing there in her nightgown, my father in his underwear, outside the building in tears... and there are flames, everything is burning," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Steinem described her mother as disappearing down the street in her nightgown, or marooned in bed “with eyes closed and lips moving in occasional response to voices only she could hear.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The babydoll itself debuted in the 1940s as a nightgown whose abbreviated length was the result of war-rationed fabric.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

She jumped out of bed in her nightgown, chased after her 10-year-old border collie, Henry Valentine, and ran to her car in a pair of sandals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024

In wintertime it would be quite dark when he climbed from his bed made out of the cigarette box, and he sometimes shivered with cold as he stood in his nightgown doing his exercises.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

The dresses of "Bridgerton" look like comfy nightgowns compared to the frothy, highly-structured clothes of "The Gilded Age," where many female characters resemble wedding cakes.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2022

“Why is there a hospital gown in there when I know she’s supposed to have eight nightgowns? Why did everything reek of urine?”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Doen Doen sells romantic cotton dresses, nightgowns and tops by the Los Angeles-based bohemian fashion brand, founded by sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

A crescendoing murmur as Selma’s white people surged down the road in curlers, in nightgowns, in boxer shorts, sipping glasses of tea, holding Bibles.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2020

Jackie first, my sister says, our freshly washed hair damp and spiraling over toweled shoulders and pale cotton nightgowns.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson