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

When Jack and I had seen him at his inn he had been a little in liquor, and wore a sort of long chintz bedgown wrapper, with his waistcoat buttoned awry—not a very nice figure.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

She was wrapped round in a clean white bedgown; and her long thin arms lay straight before her on the outside of the bedclothes.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

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 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 Thackeray, William Makepeace