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A nightgown is a : a loose, dress-like piece that a woman or girl wears in bed. In American English this is the usual word; British English often says instead. Older English wrote it as two words, night gown, and the idea is the same: a gown for the night. Some nightgowns are thin; some are warm and long. It belongs with . Though actually, students often mix it up with a dressing gown or — that is a thicker robe you wear over your sleeping clothes to walk around the house, not the thing you sleep in.
睡裙、女用睡袍（不是出門套的浴袍）
組成From Middle English nyght gowne. By the pieces you can still see: night + gown.
同家族的字
- nightthe dark part of the day; the first half of the compound
- gowna long, loose garment; here the sleeping kind
- nightdressthe usual British word for the same piece of clothing
- nightclothesthe wider set that a nightgown belongs to
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nightgownnoun/ˈnaɪtˌɡaʊn/
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A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.
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A dressing gown.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。