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noundayclothes pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyuncommonSynonym of daywear.First known use 19th c.
Accordingly, that evening, when bedtime came. Maria and the children did not go to bed, but they lay down upon the couches and in their berths, in their dayclothes, awaiting the summons which they expected to receive when the small steamer should come.
c. 1853, Jacob Abbott, “The Arrival” (chapter XI), in Rollo on the Atlantic, Boston: W. J. Reynolds & Co., page 208Synonyms: daywear
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nounSynonym of daywear.
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