nightgear

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noun

Nightclothes.

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Meanings

nounnightgear (countable and uncountable, plural nightgears)

plural nightgears

  1. countableuncountableNightclothes.

    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
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
nightclothesnightwearsleepwear

Origin

From night + gear.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

nightgear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightgear

MLA

“nightgear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightgear. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nightgear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nightgear.

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