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Definition of Nightshirts
1. nightshirt [n] - See also: nightshirt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightshirts
Literary usage of Nightshirts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Philippines: Natural Riches, Industrial Resources by Murat Halstead (1898)
"... Mud—The White Raiment of High Officers—Drawing the Line on nightshirts—Ashamed
of Big Toes—Dewey and Merritt as Figures of Show—The Boys in White. ..."
2. Reports May, 1898, March, 1899 by Relief Committee, Red Cross, American National Red Cross, U. S (1899)
"For soldiers in Evanston Hospital :—i dozen nightshirts, 2 dozen butter-cloth
... For soldiers living in Evanston :—4 suits pajamas, 3 nightshirts. ..."
3. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"Of sheets and pillow-cases, nightshirts and pajamas, it gave many thousands.
\Ve not only distributed a large number sent from New York; boxes were sent us ..."
4. Memoirs of My Dead Life by George Moore (1920)
"Doris, we have fallen upon a moral town! — high beds and nightshirts.' 'But, sir,
may I not offer you a silk nightshirt? We have some very pretty ones. ..."
5. Annual Report of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Navy, Chief of the Bureau of by United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (1918)
"The patients were clad in the regulation light Navy nightshirts, which give but
little protection and are soaked by even a moderate amount of perspiration. ..."
6. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"2 nightshirts. We have material on hand— 40 pair of socks, $7 worth of yarn, 42
yards flannelette, 40 yards cheesecloth, $38.50 in money. ..."
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