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Definition of Nightdress

1. Noun. Lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women.

Definition of Nightdress

1. n. A nightgown.

Definition of Nightdress

1. Noun. A nightgown; female attire designed to be worn to bed. ¹

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Definition of Nightdress

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightdress

Literary usage of Nightdress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Helen Kinne, Anna Maria Cooley (1916)
"LESSON 5 CUTTING OUT A nightdress The patterns and muslin have probably arrived. Suppose you cut out your nightdress. Miss James kept a memorandum of the ..."

2. The Child; Its Care, Diet, and Common Ills by Elisha Mather Sill (1913)
"... nightdress. arms and legs to be moved freely as well as giving plenty of room about the abdomen and chest. Care should be taken that bands are not ..."

3. A Handbook for Sewing School Teachers (1893)
"MAKING A nightdress. The yoke should be a double thickness of the muslin. For the shoulder scams make a French fell. Fold an inch hem on each side of the ..."

4. The Great Crime of 1860: Being a Summary of the Facts Relating to the Murder by Joseph Whitaker Stapleton, Constance Emilie Kent, Elizabeth Gough (1861)
"I am certain I put the nightdress of Miss Constance into the basket, ... We bad heard that there was a nightdress lost, and we opened the basket within five ..."

5. The Upper Canada Law Journalby William S. Hein & Company by William S. Hein & Company (1865)
"The evidence, indeed, showed that she had not destroyed a nightdress, ... His idea was that the nightdress put into the basket was not the one worn during ..."

6. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"In the morning her nightdress had become dry where it had been washed. ... She had abstracted the nightdress put on after the murder from the clothes basket ..."

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