nightie
IPA: nˈaɪti
noun
- (informal) A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.
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Examples of "nightie" in Sentences
- Wearing: Flowy off-the-shoulder white fairytale nightie.
- Pity Desdemona spends so much of that play in her nightie, he clucked, unpacking his goodies.
- She was in some kind of nightie, and actually looked somewhat fetching; I hadn't really looked at her before.
- Made by hand of organic cotton, the nightie is a throwback to a bygone era and is pretty enough to be worn as a dress.
- And then there was the little girl, who usually would wake up and in her "nightie" come out of bed and sleepily smile at me and climb on to my knee and nod off again.
- "I love you - G xxx" so of course I got all mushy and soft and even hugged it (I know I'm pathetic) then decided to put on my nightie for bed and there under my pillow wrapped in my nightie was another note that said:
- Neat little undergarments, white little frocks, a something that the miner felt by instinct was a "nightie," and two pairs of the smallest of stockings rewarded the overhauling of the package, and left Jim momentarily speechless.
- When this strain was at its worst and every nerve on edge, another scream from behind us cut our ears like a needle, the eyes of the tigress as well as ours sought the door, and there in her golden curls and white "nightie" stood little Madeline.
- So she had, perforce, to submit to his taking off her dressing-gown, and the glowing ardour and admiration in his dark eyes when she stood before him clad only in her filmy, sleeveless "nightie" brought the hot colour flooding back to her fair face again.
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