0 a comfortable piece of clothing like a long, loose shirt worn in bed, especially in the past, by a man or boy --
Panico rushed into the cabin in his nightshirt and asked what was happening.
His fondness for fine dining led him to be caricatured as a bloated voluptuary, usually dressed in a nightshirt and sleeping cap, waking only to eat.
Having no time to take their possessions with them, the people rushed from their houses onto the street, still in their nightshirts.
Darnley was dressed only in his nightshirt, suggesting he had fled in some haste from his bedchamber.
Longer shirts are used as nightshirts or pajamas.
A nightshirt of hers is in a location where she did not leave it.
The nightshirt version can include a matching nightcap.
I can remember my father in his nightshirt, digging for worms for the baby robin in the bathroom.
