Bedgown

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  • n. an article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front; a bedjacket
  • n. a nightgown
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A nightgown.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A night-gown or night-dress.
  • n. A kind of jacket like a dressing-sack, usually of printed calico, worn in Scotland by women of the working-class, generally together with a drugget or colored flannel petticoat. Also called short-gown.
  • Word Usage
    "This noble Venetian Dame then exhibited, beneath an old white satin bedgown, made to cover her arms and breast, the dress in which she had equipped herself, between the acts, to be ready for trampling home; namely, a dirty red and white linen gown, an old blue stuff quilted coat, and black shoes and stockings."
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    nightgown   
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