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nightie

noun as in negligee

noun as in nightgown

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One day I sat with a woman in a nightie who needed help to be taken from her bed to the bathroom, just 8ft away.

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"I was in my nightie and he grabbed my hand, started pulling me out the bathroom. I was really trying to stop him, but I couldn't."

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Boyd remembers hosting pajama party sales events at his stores where customers would show up in outrageous sleepwear — see-through nighties and G-strings.

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Cardigans and some of Martha's nighties are actually my gran's old stuff.

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And there was Camilla, in her flannel nightie, climbing into her bed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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