(1) Estimated production of nightdresses in New Zealand also decreased (460,000 to 80,000 units, 1973-86).
(2) Am I giving anything away if I tell you that this week’s episode – I’ve just watched it in the interests of fairness – begins with a shot in which DS Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) is dressed in an empire-line nightdress and a flapping silk dressing gown straight out of the latest campaign for Dior?
(3) Both had worn cotton flannel nightdresses in winter.
(4) So everyday, I begin to visualise the same thing: a little girl, my daughter, pads in her nightdress into my room at night and says: "Mummy?"
Nightgown
Definition:
(n.) A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the many dreadful consequences of killings at home is that families must bear witness, to the body of a mother’s daughter, a brother’s sister, laying in the middle of the road with her nightgown hiked up around her hips.
(2) Still in her nightgown, she was carried to a small boat before the raiders sped away.
(3) So we spoke in her bedroom, where she sat in pristine nightgown and shawl, in a rocking chair by the gold-curtained window, surrounded by a basket of tapestry wool (she was stitching a complex pattern for an evening bag), a walker, and a half-read Arnold Bennett novel, preparation for her book club – "Do you know, he's surprisingly good."
(4) As he assaulted her the second time Savile told her: “Now then, you will be beautiful again.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologises to those abused by Jimmy Savile at the Stoke Mandeville hospital Six child patients said they were abused by Savile after encountering him in the corridors of the hospital wearing only their hospital nightgowns, leaving them with “little defence against inappropriate touching by Savile”.
(5) Wearing only in a nightgown, with no shoes on, Tanisha was disoriented and kept trying to leave the house.
(6) "For a while, my dad slept in a nightgown, because he's sensitive and brave."
(7) The exhibition, sponsored by Agent Provocateur, also includes nightgowns from the 1930s and a rubber corset from House of Harlot made for the exhibition.