bedgown


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Related to bedgown: bed jacket, petticoat, nightgown

bedgown

(ˈbɛdˌɡaʊn)
n
a nightdress
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She had run up in her bedgown to his door to call him as usual; then had gone back to dress and call the others; and in ten minutes was walking to the head of the stairs with the candle in her hand.
She was clad in a bedgown. Hastening to her father she threw her arms about his neck, saying: "You naughty papa, you forgot to come in and kiss me.
Mr Pitt in a nightcap and bedgown, and without his boots, represented the poet Cowper with perfect exactness; and Mary Queen of Scots in a dark wig, white shirt-collar, and male attire, was such a complete image of Lord Byron that the young ladies quite screamed when they saw it.
On the first landing I met a Flemish housemaid: she had wooden shoes, a short red petticoat, a printed cotton bedgown, her face was broad, her physiognomy eminently stupid; when I spoke to her in French, she answered me in Flemish, with an air the reverse of civil; yet I thought her charming; if she was not pretty or polite, she was, I conceived, very picturesque; she reminded me of the female figures in certain Dutch paintings I had seen in other years at Seacombe Hall.
A tall man in a blue-gray bedgown was regarding him with deep disfavour.
Her grey hair is turned neatly back under a pure linen cap with a black band round it; her broad chest is covered with a buff neckerchief, and below this you see a sort of short bedgown made of blue-checkered linen, tied round the waist and descending to the hips, from whence there is a considerable length of linsey- woolsey petticoat.
Datchery accosts his last new acquaintance outside, when the Choir (as much in a hurry to get their bedgowns off, as they were but now to get them on) have scuffled away.
HOW THE TOWNS COMPARE Population: Cardiff: 350,000, Stuttgart 600,000 Traditional dress: Cardiff: bedgown, Stuttgart: lederhosen Football team: Cardiff: Cardiff City FC, Stuttgart: VfB Stuttgart Average rainfall per month: Cardiff: 96mm, Stuttgart: 61mm Key attractions: Cardiff: St Fagan's, Wales Millennium Centre, National Museum and Art Gallery, Bute Park, Cardiff Castle, Stuttgart: Neckar Park, Wilhelma Zoo, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Palace Square, State Gallery of Stuttgart
It consisted of a formal petticoat under a flannel bedgown with an apron and a cloak.
The cloth, similar in weight and texture to the original, was then used to recreate an 18th-century bedgown for display in the museum.
He recommends that we dump the red flannel shawl, the wool skirt and the bedgown and develop a new image to represent a modern thriving Wales.
It can be difficult to take a druid too seriously, especially when he's all kitted up in laurel crown and his grandmother's favourite bedgown, and plenty of spurious claptrap has drifted from the druidic Logan stone into the ethereal never-never land over the years.