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nightshirt

/nahyt-shurt/US // ˈnaɪtˌʃɜrt //UK // (ˈnaɪtˌʃɜːt) //

夜礼服,睡衣,夜行衣,睡袍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loose shirtlike garment reaching to the knees or lower, for wearing in bed.

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Examples

  • Why Putin wants Angela Merkel for a nightshirt is beyond me.

  • Yet what little most Americans know about KSM is what they have gleaned from that famous photo of him in his nightshirt.

  • With the left hand he clutched the covers, with the right his nightshirt, just back of the neck.

  • The loaf was thoughtfully wrapped up in a nightshirt to preserve it from the effect of sun and salt water.

  • Hubert was soon well of his bruises; but not of the cold induced by lying in the snow, clad only in his white nightshirt.

  • It does Meredith credit that he got out of bed and joined them, “his nightshirt thrust into brown trousers.”

  • A small hand reached 'round the edge of the door and the nightshirt disappeared.