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
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 L. T. Meade
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
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 Rafael Sabatini
"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
