nightrobe

Example Sentences

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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

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

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.

She sprang lightly on to the floor, found her slippers, and threw a silk kimono over her nightrobe.

From Tales of Chinatown by Rohmer, Sax

In the darkness he had waited until the woman suddenly appeared sitting in the bed in her white nightrobe.

From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Anderson, Sherwood