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

We held the Council in his dressing-room at Carlton House; he was in his bedgown, and we in our boots.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry

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

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)

He rose at dawn, every day of his life, and took his sop in coffee in his bedgown, sitting on the edge of his bed.

From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry