Meaning of night-dress | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of nightdress.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“Or if, on the contrary, we had taken a fancy for the terrible, and made the lover of the new femme de chambre a professional burglar, who bursts into the house with his band, slaughters black Sambo at the feet of his master, and carries off Amelia in her night-dress, not to be let⟳ loose again till the third volume, we should easily have⟳ constructed a tale of thrilling interest⟳, through the fiery chapters of which the reader should hurry⟳, panting.”

““[…] You were very nearly dead to-night, Macumazahn.” / “Very nearly, indeed,” I answered, still panting, and arranging the rags of my night-dress round me as best I might.”

“Then, with a nod to his brother and a short word of greeting to the dauphin and to the Duc du Maine, he swung his legs over the side of the bed, and sat in his long silken night-dress, his little white feet dangling from beneath it—a perilous position for any man to assume⟳, were it not that he had so heart-felt a sense⟳ of his own⟳ dignity that he could not realise⟳ that under any circumstances it might be compromised in the eyes of others.”

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