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
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After which, strangely clad in a kind of bedgown and nightcap, it trailed back to the settle beside the turf and wood fire, which furnished both light and warmth.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
"Dokter," screeched a portly Tante in a soiled cotton bedgown and flapping kappje, appearing, copper stewpan in hand, from between the canvas tilt-curtains of a living-waggon.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
Somewhile after I was called to Prestongrange, where he was sitting in his bedgown and nightcap, with his letters around him.
The next morning Mr. Warrington, arrayed in his brocade bedgown, took his breakfast, read the newspaper, and enjoyed his ease in his inn.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray