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

A peevish-looking old woman wearing a bedgown, and with a cap with a large frill falling round her face, appeared in the rose-covered porch of the tiny cottage.

From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.

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

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

Wilhelmine shivered in her thin bedgown, but she made no movement towards clothing herself; she was a prey to a mood of profound melancholy, and her expression was mournful, almost sinister.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

The costume of the women, a cap and a short sleeved jacket fitting the waist, called a Lancashire bedgown, is decidedly picturesque. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel