Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A skirted garment or wrapper meant to be worn at sea.
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Examples
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As he spoke the door opened, and in walked, wrapped in his rough sea-gown, none other than one of those said noble sons.
Westward Ho! 2007
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As he spoke the door opened, and in walked, wrapped in his rough sea-gown, none other than one of those said noble sons.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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My sea-gown scarf 'd about me, in the dark Grop'd I to find out them: had my desire;
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