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nightgown

/nahyt-goun/US // ˈnaɪtˌgaʊn //UK // (ˈnaɪtˌɡaʊn) //

睡袍,睡衣,睡裙,晚礼服

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loose gown, worn in bed by women or children.
    • : Archaic. a dressing gown.

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Examples

  • Orthodox women who escaped the collapse or were evacuated from their homes were in their nightgowns and not wearing their wigs or headscarves — they do not show their hair in public — so even these intimate needs have been met by donations.

  • Well, besides tear a strap off her nightgown and bend her over the kitchen island.

  • In her floral nightgown, she typed out a new sleep observation form for Damion’s Place, an employee log, an updated menu.

  • Marni Kotak sits on a gold-painted twin bed, wearing a gold satin nightgown, with matching bedsheets covering her legs.

  • “It changed everything that night,” she says, wearing only a nightgown and untying her hair.

  • They knew, or had reason to assume, that the body was moved to the guest bed and reclothed in the nightgown.

  • My eyes were woozy as I woke up, and I saw these spindly, veiny legs in slippers and a nightgown.

  • They wouldn't let me dress so I just put a coat over my nightgown as it was raining.

  • The youngster was in his long white nightgown, that kept tripping him up as Madame Ratignolle led him along by the hand.

  • He was accompanied by innumerable others, who pulled me out of bed and carried me to an unknown land in my nightgown.

  • Over his green doublet he wore a sad-coloured nightgown, out of the pocket of which peeped his hunting-horn.

  • "I wants a nightgown, and I wants to say my p'ayers," she persisted.

  • What are you doing out in that tree, and why are you in your nightgown?