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nightgear

nightgear noun: nightclothes.

Noun

nightgear (countable and uncountable, plural nightgears)

  1. Nightclothes.
    • every Friday he caused his priests to beat his shoulders with five little yron chaines, which to that purpose were ever caried with his nightgeare.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • The Swiss, the black night-gear discarded for a shirt matching the colour of the skies and the court, might have become tangled up in Santoro's mesmeric webs when he was much younger but these days the little master of spin and slice can be flicked aside with peremptory ease.2008 January 17, Steve Bierley, The Guardian

Forms of nightgear

pluralnightgears

Origin of nightgear

From night + gear.

Questions about nightgear

What does nightgear mean?
Nightgear means nightclothes.
What part of speech is nightgear?
Nightgear is a noun.
What is the plural of nightgear?
The plural of nightgear is nightgears.

Words near nightgear in the dictionary

  1. nightfrights
  2. nightful
  3. nightfulness
  4. nightfuls
  5. nightgame
  6. nightgear
  7. nightgears
  8. nightglass
  9. nightglasses
  10. nightgloom
  11. nightglow

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