Meanings
attributive pyjama
- UKpluralplural onlystandardUK standard form of pajamas.
They too revert to simpler, non-western clothes—saris, dhotis, and pyjamas.
2010, Lucy Norris, Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value, Indiana University Press, page 343 more examples
The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas.
1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231She wasn′t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk.
2007, Ann Brashares, Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue, page 178There was a Delhi embroidered waistcoat to slip over a milky white shirt, fastening to the right, ample and flowing; green pyjamas with twisted silk waist-string; and that nothing might be lacking, russia leather slippers, smelling divinely, with arrogantly curled tips.
1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Origin
- Classical Persianپایجامه
- Urduپائِجامَہ
- Hindiपैजामा
- Englishpyjamas
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma)), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).
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