Noun: pyjamas
Sample Sentences
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The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas. [1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231]
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She wasn′t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk. [2007, Ann Brashares, Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue, page 178:]
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There was a Delhi embroidered waistcoat to slip over a milky white shirt, fastening to the right, ample and flowing; green pyjamas with twisted silk waist-string; and that nothing might be lacking, russia leather slippers, smelling divinely, with arrogantly curled tips. [1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim:]
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They too revert to simpler, non-western clothes—saris, dhotis, and pyjamas. [2010, Lucy Norris, Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value, Indiana University Press, page 34:]
Nouns inflected like pyjamas
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma)), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).
Verbs referencing "pyjamas"
Danish Nouns
pyjamas, Dutch Nouns
pyjama, Finnish Nouns
pyjama, Portuguese Nouns
pijama, Spanish Nouns
pijama, Italian Nouns
pigiama, German Nouns
Pyjama, Bulgarian Nouns
пижама, Russian Nouns
пижама, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
pysjamas, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
pysjamas.