Synonyms for nightclothes


Grammar : Noun
Spell : nahyt-klohz, -klohth z
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪtˌkloʊz, -ˌkloʊðz


Définition of nightclothes

  • As in lingerie : noun women's undergarments
Example sentences :
  • His wife, who was very ill, was dragged through the water in her nightclothes.
  • Extract from : « The Johnstown Horror » by James Herbert Walker
  • Osman, still in his nightclothes, toddled about, nibbling a sweet-cake.
  • Extract from : « Our Little Turkish Cousin » by Mary Hazelton Wade
  • My father was not in bed; he had risen in his nightclothes and was preparing a noose in a strong cord.
  • Extract from : « The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 » by Ambrose Bierce
  • At three her Big Brother, yawning sleepily back in his nightclothes, picked her up bodily and dumped her into her bed.
  • Extract from : « The Sick-a-Bed Lady » by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Get your nightclothes, and whatever you want, and reverse the accustomed walk.
  • Extract from : « The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as "Tommy Upmore" » by R. D. Blackmore
  • The Colonel read the dispatch of Captain Duffield, sitting on his bed in his nightclothes.
  • Extract from : « The Courier of the Ozarks » by Byron A. Dunn
  • He was taken up to the quarter deck in his nightclothes, and made to stand against the mizzen mast with four men to guard him.
  • Extract from : « The Red True Story Book » by Various
  • The many children who had gone to bed before the fire began had nothing to wear except their nightclothes.
  • Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
  • So at last the many children took off their nightclothes and put on their new dresses.
  • Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
  • She was sitting up and she looked ever so little in her nightclothes and ever so plain with her tightly braided red hair.
  • Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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