bedgowns

Beautiful Blue Bra bought by blushing bride brought to baby room to brief baby about B and blue … because, by gum, birth brought big changes, such as bedgowns instead of bikinis.

Now I Know My ABCs… | Her Bad Mother 2007

Beautiful Blue Bra bought by blushing bride brought to baby room to brief baby about B and blue...because, by gum, birth brought big changes, such as bedgowns instead of bikinis.

Now I Know My ABCs... 2007

London-made dress-boots; envoys from Burmah or the khanates, appareled in a kind of bedgowns; diplomates from all the embassies and ministries, in uniforms of all sorts and colors, the amount of stars, orders and suchlike decorations on each illustrious chest being usually in the inverse ratio of the real importance of the country to which the wearer belongs; gallant generals in scarlet and gallant admirals in blue; and gallant militia officers and deputy lieutenants just as scarlet and blue, ay, and golden too, as anybody; and all these encircled and enwrapped by billowy masses of tulle and gauze and silk and satin in which the ladies have come forth conquering and to conquer.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

"The women wore linses [flax] petticoats and 'bedgowns' [like a dressing-sack], and often went without shoes in the summer.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

Mr. 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.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

He purchased fine shaving-plate of the toy-shop women, and a couple of magnificent brocade bedgowns, in which his worship lolled at ease, and sipped his chocolate of a morning.

The Virginians 2006

When he was clean and wrapped in one of Henry's bedgowns, Norfolk invited him to sit down to a belated meal and himself joined him.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

The swordmaster and the two novices still stood on the brick steps of the novices 'house, talking quietly, all three wrapped in bedgowns, though, Caris noticed, the swordmaster had her scabbarded blade still in hand, ready for action.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Towards the end we read of them 'struggling into their nightgowns' before the service, while they subsequently are 'as much in a hurry to get their bedgowns off as they were but now to get them on' -- and these were almost the last words that came from the Master's pen.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

Without mortar-board 'ats and black bedgowns, or stuffing my brains till they turn.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various