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
Suddenly she sat up in bed, and, taking a bedgown which was lying on it rolled up, she held it eagerly to her breast—to the right side.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel
The worthy widow to whom the house belonged speedily joined the group in nightcap and bedgown, and listened half awake to Mrs. Barnaby's clamorous account of her misfortune.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Hannah wore her bedgown and her short blue serge petticoat; her legs and feet were bare; the breezes had caught up her short gray locks, and were tossing them wildly about.
From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.
"And I told our young friend that I thought he had better have been on his way to church than there in his bedgown."
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
