The word 'nightie' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a colloquial term for a loose, lightweight, and often sleeveless dress worn by women or girls for sleeping. You can use the word 'nightie' in informal written contexts, such as in a personal diary, a chat or email message, or in a casual blog post or social media caption. It is not typically used in formal or professional writing. Example: "I couldn't wait to get home and change into my cozy nightie after a long day at work."
Rather, it appeared in all innocence sporting its flannel nightie and bunny slippers, perhaps hoping the audiences it would bring, not to mention its billion-dollar smile, would sway broadcasters.
Enter Miss Cutts (a blatantly seductive Indira Varma) in her nightie, no stranger to Roote's bed, or anyone else's, apparently, offering neck massages and potency taunts.
A beautiful set-piece spread over a long dark night of the children's bowels, which ends with a moment of heart-breaking tenderness and the realisation: "Diarrhoea and sick … on vaguely sexual nightie.
(Was he mad? Or unwell?) In bed, he claimed to be too overworked to contemplate removing her silk nightie.
I couldn't talk to the President of South Africa wearing only a nightie".
"Her nightie was one of those Liberty prints and it was down to her knees".
Her interpretation wasn't literal – the accent a little less cut glass and, in a cotton nightie rather than twin set and Barbour, the iconography reduced – but Thompson captured that singular steeliness without froideur that defines our perception of the Queen.
Other oddballs include a tottering redhead who seems to be waiting or looking for something; a spectral female in pale nightie who drifts about, echoing the gestures of others, as if trying to make sense of them (this was to have been Bausch herself, but she was indisposed on opening night).
There have been many jokes about "food porn" since the arrival of Nigella kneeling by her fridge in her nightie, but Comfort Food is the most shameless display of culinary "money shots" pushed through as educational programming ever risked.
True, the name can connote ropey special effects, too many repeated views of the Bray Studios set, Barbara Shelley's bosom heaving beneath a diaphanous nightie and a pointed stick, and gloriously silly titles like Plague of the Zombies.
If I too sound judgemental then perhaps that's because I'm so judgemental about Paul that by the first advertisement break of My Tattoo Addiction I'd changed out of my nightie, into a wig and black damask gown and was using the remote control as a gavel.
