nightgown

[nahyt-goun] /ˈnaɪtˌgaʊn/

noun

a loose gown, worn in bed by women or children.

Archaic. a dressing gown.

Origin

1350-1400; Middle English; see night, gown

Examples from the web for nightgown

The nightgown catches, and begins a slow, steady burn.
She yelled for her sister who came in her nightgown, and became stuck in the same manner.
One artist made a nightgown out of chemically-peeled skin.
He always had his nightgown half as long again as his body.
The fact that she is wearing a flowered nightgown somehow makes the image worse.
She prepares for him-she takes from her trousseau a sheer nightgown of white nylon and a matching negligee.
His fingers move, feeling my arm under the nightgown sleeve, as if his hand won't listen to reason.
Snuggled in her nightgown, she often sidles up to her home-office computer to surf the shopping sites.
He was pulling at the hem of my favorite nightgown.
She was still wearing her nightgown and had thrown a jacket over it to go into the shed area to answer the door.

British Dictionary definitions for nightgown

/ˈnaɪtˌɡaʊn/

noun

another name for nightdress

a man's nightshirt

Word Origin and History for nightgown

also night-gown, c.1400, from night + gown.