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English
Etymology
From night + dress.
Pronunciation
Noun
nightdress (plural nightdresses)
- A nightgown; (usually female) attire designed to be worn to bed.
She was too modest to come downstairs dressed only in her nightdress.
1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., ), chapter VII (Light in the Darkness), page 44:The window of the room was open, and beside the window, all huddled up, lay the body of a man in his nightdress.
Translations
sleeping garment usually worn by women
— see nightgown