nightgear

English

Etymology

From night +‎ gear.

Noun

nightgear (countable and uncountable, plural nightgears)

  1. Nightclothes.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      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.
    • 2008, Steve Bierley, The Guardian, 17 January:
      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.

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