nightrobe

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In pajamas and nightrobe, the judge sleepily listened to Landis' arguments, then signed a temporary restraining order.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pamphlet lay on top of her gloves; she carried it to the window and, with her limbs trembling and sending ripples down her nightrobe, read it.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie

He had no chance to speak before Teola, too, with streaming hair, her nightrobe clutched convulsively in one hand, opened the hall door.

From Tess of the Storm Country by White, Grace Miller

Then comes the nightrobe, and next the pajama or lounging robe, which may be of anything, from flannel to eider down.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

In impatience, or that he might breathe the freer, the ribbons which knotted his woollen nightrobe at the throat had been unfastened, leaving the lean, parchment-coloured chest and throat, corded with starting sinews, nakedly open.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton