nightgown
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"I watched as my mother is standing there in her nightgown, my father in his underwear, outside the building in tears... and there are flames, everything is burning," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Steinem described her mother as disappearing down the street in her nightgown, or marooned in bed “with eyes closed and lips moving in occasional response to voices only she could hear.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The babydoll itself debuted in the 1940s as a nightgown whose abbreviated length was the result of war-rationed fabric.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
She found Keke there, asleep in her nightgown with her head resting on the kitchen table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024
Huddled in a corner, shivering in her thin nightgown, clinging to an old doll’s blanket, Angel was crying silently.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
When I was a kid, I also had a few nightgowns.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
The dresses of "Bridgerton" look like comfy nightgowns compared to the frothy, highly-structured clothes of "The Gilded Age," where many female characters resemble wedding cakes.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2022
“Why is there a hospital gown in there when I know she’s supposed to have eight nightgowns? Why did everything reek of urine?”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
By the time they purchased the house, Loretta Caponi was becoming a renowned purveyor of fine hand-embroidered nightgowns and linens, beloved by generations of aristocratic European and Middle Eastern families.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2021
She had them stand before him in their long white nightgowns.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
