(n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
(2) He was wearing pyjamas.” A man later called on Trump’s behalf asking her to return to his room, she said, and she refused.
(3) Photograph: Alamy “The right to wear pyjamas on the school run, like those parents in Darlington?
(4) I was a typical ex-art-school kid, going to work in a baggy T-shirt and pyjama bottoms.
(5) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
(6) On the night of 24 November, in his bedroom at Tamworth where he was still living, Nick Drake had been playing some new riffs and songs in his pyjamas and recording them on a cassette player.
(7) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pajamas Striped prison pyjamas, right?
(8) Fatima Bourahli, 26, stood in the street with a coat over her pyjamas looking over at the police line.
(9) A man whose new efit image was released by police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was seen carrying a young blonde child, possibly wearing pyjamas, on the night in question, the officer leading the investigation has said.
(10) The many children killed in the attack, many of them wearing their pyjamas when the night-time attack took place, cry out for justice.
(11) The pronounced decrease in injuries attributable to ignition of children's nightclothes is likely to be the result of mandatory controls on children's nightclothes, increased use of pyjamas, and a steady decrease in use of open fires and portable electric heaters.
(12) In forty-one apyrexial adult male patients, who were clothed in light-weight cotton pyjamas, mean skin temperature was determined and, simultaneously, ambient temperature and the temperature of air space under clothing were measured.
(13) Senator Barnaby Joyce greets some protesting Bananas in Pyjamas out the front of Parliament House in Canberra this morning as the government prepares to deliver its first Budget.
(14) On stage, the duo wear only pyjamas, and their anything-goes plays are mounted without props, costumes or sets, with some parts improvised.
(15) Back in Beit Lahiya, Najia – still in pink pyjamas in the middle of the day – sees for the first time the photograph taken of her on the morning of the school shelling.
(16) Back in Morecambe on a doorstep in the Ryelands estate, one of the poorest parts of Lone’s constituency, one girl, still dressed in her pyjamas in the afternoon, describes how her sister recently lost her baby after breaking her back.
(17) The high-street version Topman Design , AKA TMD, has previously put trophy jumpers, Robert Mapplethorpe-inspired prints, pyjamas-as-daywear, grunge, tiny shorts and clutch bags on the catwalk.
(18) They told her to wear flannelette pyjamas and a woollen hat.
(19) The child he was carrying was aged three to four, blonde, and may have been wearing pyjamas.
(20) said Angela Dowling, a 44-year-old mother of two who came out into her front garden at 9am still in her pyjamas.