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Word: nightdress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiger's stripes on its tank suit ($19), also offers a cobra-skin pattern if stripes don't suit. Most stylish are the Courreges-inspired underpinnings of Formfit-Rogers. The full slip ($9), in white with black banding, can easily double as a nightdress or a playdress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: FASHION Zip-- and Also Pop | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Sorcerer has powerful magic. Depending on whether they believed their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Sorcerer | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy nightdress with a suitably placed hole through which the husband could impregnate his wife while avoiding any other contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Amour the Merrier | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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