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pajamas
/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/
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What does pajamas mean?
noun
- Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
- Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
- (slang) The coloured uniform worn by players in professional limited overs matches.
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IPA pronunciation
/pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/
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We sat about quite comfortably in our pajamas, and took our fifteen grains of quinine per week against the fever.
One man, an attendant, lies orderly on his pallet; the other, a slender figure in pajamas, crouches in a corner.
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When everybody there was in extreme negligee, most of the men in pajamas and ulsters, and all of them without collars, the Hon. Cyrus Wykoff put in a tardy appearance, arrayed as for an afternoon tea.
"Mr. Smith," said the other, who, arrayed in his pajamas, was seated on the edge of the bed, "you alarm me very greatly. I may mention that I was advised of your presence in England this morning."
There was a one-piece cotton undergarment, thin and soft, that reached over the knees and shoulders, something like the one-piece pajamas some fellows wear, and a kind of half-hose, that came up to just under the knee and stayed there--had elastic tops of their own, and covered the edges of the first.