bedgown
Example Sentences
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He was still in his bedgown and slippers, with paper, inkhorn, and pens about him, writing poetry.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Then she added "I don't like the pattern of that bedgown, do you?"
From Sowing and Sewing A Sexagesima Story by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"Dear lad, is that so?" said the landlord, who had come down, and was standing by the hotel door in nightcap and bedgown.
From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The ladies came first to their chocolate: them Mr. Will joined in his court suit; finally, my lord appeared, languid, in his bedgown and nightcap, having not yet assumed his wig for the day.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
"I am not afraid of mists," she said, and in her long silk bedgown she tripped to the outer door, opened it, and returned to fling herself in abandonment of fatigue upon her tiny couch.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
