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nightgown

noun as in dress in which to sleep

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Once in her nightgown she slipped under the comforter, which was soft and mossy green as a forest floor.

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There she changed the groggy girl into a nightgown and rolled her into her bed.

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Harrowing footage captured seniors fleeing in nightgowns, as others were pushed down the street in wheelchairs and hospital beds.

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She describes her mother, who was a school teacher, as “very conservative” — and also prone to going to the grocery store in just a nightgown and no bra.

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She found Keke there, asleep in her nightgown with her head resting on the kitchen table.

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