The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyjama \Py*ja"ma\, n. [Hind. p[=a]e-j[=a]ma, literally, leg clothing.] 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. [Written also paijama pajama.] [Chiefly British variant of pajama.]
Wiktionary
alt. (context British English) (attributive of pyjamas English) n. (context British English) (attributive of pyjamas English)
WordNet
n. a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries
Usage examples of "pyjama".
Sarel had got out of bed and taken the creature in his hand, and Alethea had shuddered strongly as it crept into his pyjama sleeve.
Upstairs, Simon was sound asleep, with his pyjamaed legs sprawled and all his covers kicked loose from the foot of the bed.
First they took in Fenner, who had just had time after the brief telephone call to pull on pyjama trousers, start the coffee percolating, open shutters and curtains.
He was wearing his dressing gown, pyjama bottoms, and, for some unguessable reason, a deerstalker hat with flaps in place.
He was already wearing his battered old donkey jacket, and he was pulling his trousers over his pyjama bottoms.
Stripy pyjama bottoms she'd got at a jumble sale, camel-coloured desert boots, hair loose, the perfect designer look for a winter party.
Home, who slept in his pyjama jacket only, so that his shrivelled and unpleasing privy parts were offered to our view.
He had slung a reefer jacket, green with age and sea mould, over the dirty pyjama jacket and he stood there, huge in the half light of that sudden storm, sniffing the weather with his big nose, not saying a word, but by his mere presence giving support to the helmsman, a feeling of stability to the whole ship.