Definition of "pajama" [pajama]

• A loose-fitting garment consisting of trousers and a jacket, worn for sleeping or lounging. Often used in the plural. (noun)
• Loose-fitting trousers worn in the Far East by men and women. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• "She probably uses them for dust rags, or maybe she gives them away to some girl who sleeps only in pajama bottoms."
• "Eight-year-old Bruno and his twelve-year-old sister Gretel find themselves alone with their mother in a cold, modernist estate-kept company only by soldiers, a stray inmate servant or two, far-off glimpses of "pajama" - clad "farmers," and a frequent plume of acrid, pungent black smoke."
• "not to mention such great moments in pajama journalism such as memogate!"