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Pyjama   Listen
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Pyjama  n.  (Written also paijama and pajama)  In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. Usually used in the plural. See pajamas. (Chiefly British variant of pajama.)






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"Pyjama" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the cocoon of sheet or unsightly night attire, with starboard boudoir cap awry, exposing the steel cracker or the lanky lock; unsightly pedal extremities peeping from the unfeminine pyjama; ruby lips, uncarmined, ajar; whilst to port like rocks from the ocean, unshaven chins rise unrebuked from blanket billows, and pyjama button and buttonhole play touch across the unseemly, ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest

... 27th I awoke to find my chest covered with a pretty pink pattern. It blended so well with the colour of my pyjama-jacket that for some minutes I was lost in admiration of the pleasing effect. Then it occurred to me that coming diseases cast their rashes before them, and I sprang from the bed in an agony of apprehension. I rushed to the mirror and opened my mouth to look at my tongue. There ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 • Various

... as he stepped out of the tent, pyjama-clad, and gazed down into the turbid waters of the river, "it would be hardly wise to indulge in a swim, though I feel that it is just the one thing I need above all ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood

... you brutes!" he yelled angrily at the nearest hounds. "Scatter your men forward there, sergeant, and see if we can find anything." Other men were coming, too, by this time, and a lantern was dancing out from Doty's quarters. Byrne, pyjama-clad and in slippered feet, shuffled out to join the party as the guard, with rifles at ready, bored their way out to the front, the dogs still suspiciously sniffing and growling. For a moment or two no explanation offered. ...
— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King



Words linked to "Pyjama" :   pj's, jammies, nightwear, lounging pyjama, sleepwear, nightclothes, trouser, sleeper, pajama



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