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ˈnight-dress
[f. night n. + dress n.]
1. A night-gown or other dress intended for wear during the night.
1712–14Pope Rape Lock iv. 38 The fair ones feel such maladies as these, When each new night-dress gives a new disease. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 38 [She] put on a sumptuous bedgown, with a suitable night-dress for her head. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer li, Bounding down the hill, in her night-dress. 1865Trevelyan Cawnpore 9 A silk shirt and linen drawers, the universal night dress of the East. 1897Hughes Medit. Fever v. 188 The comfort of this form of garment, be it night-dress or suit, will be most evident.
2. attrib., as night-dress bag, case, a bag or other container in which a night-dress can be placed when it is not being worn.
1975Times 25 Nov. 2/6 He tried to punch her and hit a toy dog nightdress bag instead.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) p. xlvi/4 Night Dress Cases. 1932D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 218/2 A triangular embroidered night-dress case. 1969‘G. North’ Procrastination of Sergeant Cluff xv. 151 The night-dress case in the shape of a toy Koala-bear that growled when she lifted it.
So † ˈnight-dressing = night-clothes 2. Obs.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 42 The Countesse put mee into a night-dressing; and a Smocke. 1662Pepys Diary 6 Jan., My wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf, waistcoat, and night-dressings in the coach. |