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nightgown

[nahyt-goun] / ˈnaɪtˌgaʊn /


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I just still feel like a girl who likes to be in her creams and nightgown, and I also, in addition to that, really enjoy the feeling of working and sort of running on fumes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

One woman in a nightgown lugged around her own green shutters, cosplaying as a character in the ride who shouts to a man named Carlos.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024

He then asked her about her arrest, which he said she had claimed saw her being led away from her home in a nightgown.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

In “Mad Men,” Betty Draper, a 1960s housewife caught in a marriage of spite and deception, stands in her yard in her peach nightgown, holding a rifle pointed toward the sky.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

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

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood



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