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nightgear en · NOUN

Etymology

From night + gear.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:

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