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noun
nightie  n.  
1.
Any loose-fitting clothing for wear in bed.
2.
Especially: A loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women; a nightgown.
Synonyms: nightgown, night-robe, nightdress.





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"Nightie" Quotes from Famous Books



... strike, and a free-for-all fight, and a conduit explosion hadn't prepared Auntie to hit the feathers early. So at 1:30 A. M. she was still wide awake and wanderin' around in her nightie with the shades up and the lights out. That's how she happened to be stretchin' her neck out of the window when this offensive broke loose on the roof of the buildin' across ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford
... them back to South, and as Sally May's luggage had not come she was fitted out with what she needed. Nancy went to the housekeeper's room for soap and a toothbrush—Mrs. Bronson kept a supply for such emergencies; Josephine donated her best crepe nightie—in which Sally May was presently to look quite lost, so large was it; and Judith got out her newest and ...
— Judy of York Hill • Ethel Hume Patterson Bennett
... ain't pierced," he explained; "but she'll hev a reel splendid time lookin' at 'em, jest as I uster hev with my nightie." ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... Freshmen to the Student-Body collector. Very likely the Sophomore rewards him by coming to his door, after the lights are out, at the head of a motley mob. They put him on the table, shivering in his nightie, and make derogatory remarks about his shape and his personal charms; then, having solemnly baptised him "Callipers," or whatever metaphorical name his physical architecture may suggest, they make him cavort for their delectation. ...
— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field
... Peter, recovering his ease. "We're just strolling round, and that girl insists that my friend the Australian yonder should buy a nightie for his fiancee. He says he hasn't one, so she is persuading him that he can easily pick one up. What ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable


Words linked to "Nightie" :   nightdress, intimate apparel, gown, sleepwear, night-robe, nightwear


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