nightgownedadj.
/ˈnʌɪtɡaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈnaɪtˌɡaʊnd/ That wears a nightgown.
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pinafored1827
chemised1858
nightgownedc1860
décolletée1907
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. iii. 50 The doll, duly night-capped and night-gowned, lay in its cradle.]
c1860 H. E. P. Spofford in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1896) IV. 28 The four pattering night-gowned imps.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 176 A nightgowned twelve-year-old leaped from his bed.
1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 70 White little sheaves of night-gowned maids, Some other will thresh you out.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Dec. b4 ‘Nocturne’..opened strikingly with a nightgowned female figure..held still in a thin cone of light.
1993 C. Shields Stone Diaries v. 186 The house is orderly, the children asleep, and she herself is bathed, powdered, diaphragmed, and softly nightgowned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.c1860- to call back
- to call before the curtain
- to call black white
- to call brothers
- to call by the name of
- to call canny
- to call clashes
- to call collect
- to call cousins
- to call down
- to call each other pot and kettle
- to call etc
- to call for
- to call for a person's blood
- to call for blood
- to call for trumps
- to call forth
- to call foul
- to call home
- to call honours
- to call in
- to call in a favour
- to call in aid
- to call in doubt
- to call in evidence