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nightgears

nightgears is the plural of nightgear.

Meaning of nightgear

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

Questions about nightgears

What is nightgears the plural of?
Nightgears is the plural of nightgear.

Words near nightgears in the dictionary

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

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