bedgown

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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

The lower garment is a curious combination of bedgown and Turkish trousers, named calzonçillos; it is bordered by a fringe, sometimes of rich lace, from two to six inches in depth.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

We held the Council in his dressing-room at Carlton House; he was in his bedgown, and we in our boots.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry

I put on his flannel shirt—it fell down to my toes, like a bedgown; his drawers—and they flowed in Turkish luxuriance over my feet.

From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie

The costume of the women, a cap and a short sleeved jacket fitting the waist, called a Lancashire bedgown, is decidedly picturesque. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel