0 a comfortable piece of clothing like a long, loose shirt worn in bed, especially in the past, by a man or boy
Everyone at court was in theory the ruler's servant: the greatest noble might have the privilege of handing him his nightshirt.
Semak had come to the same spot from the back of the auditorium, an ageing man in a white nightshirt with fire in his eyes.
One man said he had no nightshirt given to him, and another said that his nightshirt was all torn down the back.
It could not be a nightshirt or an overcoat.
Lane escaped death by racing through a cornfield in his nightshirt.
The fire came so close to them that he and his wife, dressed only in nightshirts had to be rescued through a window.
The men dressed in their nightshirts and women dressed in sheets.
I can remember my father in his nightshirt, digging for worms for the baby robin in the bathroom.