nighttown

_The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the-wisps and danger signals.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

So I landed them up on Behan's car and down to nighttown.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

_En route_ to his taciturn and, not to put too fine a point on it, not yet perfectly sober companion Mr Bloom who at all events was in complete possession of his faculties, never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame and swell mobsmen, which, barely permissible once in a while though not as a habitual practice, was of the nature of a regular deathtrap for young fellows of his age particularly if they had acquired drinking habits under the influence of liquor unless you knew a little jiujitsu for every contingency as even a fellow on the broad of his back could administer a nasty kick if you didn't look out.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

So I landed them up on Behan’s car and down to nighttown.

Ulysses 2003

Stephen’s tongue seemed to thicken in his throat as he watched his wife, her cotton nighttown made diaphanous by the light.

The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985

Stephen’s tongue seemed to thicken in his throat as he watched his wife, her cotton nighttown made diaphanous by the light.

The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985