nightdress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a loose garment, traditionally worn by a woman or girl, for sleeping in

   She pulled on a warm nightdress before opening the bedroom window.

A transparent compound of night + dress, recorded from the early nineteenth century. It names a dress-shaped garment worn at night and is especially common in British English; nightgown is the usual close equivalent in American English.

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