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

"I am not afraid of mists," she said, and in her long silk bedgown she tripped to the outer door, opened it, and returned to fling herself in abandonment of fatigue upon her tiny couch.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

The ladies came first to their chocolate: them Mr. Will joined in his court suit; finally, my lord appeared, languid, in his bedgown and nightcap, having not yet assumed his wig for the day.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Why, now there you are in your bedgown still.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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