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

After these words the bridal bonnet disappeared; with as much state as the dimity bedgown left in it.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

My lord shifted in his elbow-chair, and drew his embroidered bedgown of yellow satin closer about his shapely limbs.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Sabatini, Rafael

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 Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by Patten, William

"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