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Meanings of nightclothes in English

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Garments designed to be worn in bed.

Usage of nightclothes in English
1
Whicher told Constance he must confiscate her linen list and remaining nightclothes.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
2
Evan felt most uncomfortable rummaging through neat drawers of underwear and nightclothes.
Evanly bodies
3
It was too hot to sleep in nightclothes, or even in underwear.
God’s Little Acre
4
Dozens of people, most of them in their nightclothes, all shouting Run!
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
5
They were in their nightclothes: loose and flowing and black as ink.
Forge of Darkness
6
Five people in nightclothes were seated on the right, two on the left.
Relentless
7
There were eleven civilians, all in nightclothes or T-shirts and shorts.
Aspho Fields
8
Sleepers stirred and tumbled out of their houses, gleefully parading in their nightclothes.
Helen of troy
9
One wore his nightclothes, the other a breastplate and nothing else.
A memory of wind
10
Thin and diaphanous, her nightclothes billowed about her as she walked.
Jarka Ruus
11
There on the ground in his nightclothes was Lucillianus, trussed like a chicken.
Julian
12
Soon a small crowd had gathered, including a few children, many in their nightclothes.
The hunchback assignments
13
Willem charged into the room from the hall, looking flushed, dressed in his nightclothes.
Mentats of Dune
14
I did, and he saw that I was wearing nightclothes.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
15
She wiped her hands, then retrieved her nightclothes from the foot of the bed.
Rock my world
16
Turn down that coverlid and let me see if you've got your nightclothes on.
The Captain's Toll-Gate
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