short-gown

Mrs.C. wore an old print skirt, an old short-gown, a print apron, and a sun-bonnet, with a flap coming down to her waist, and looked as careworn and clean as she always does.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Her brown russet short-gown set off a shape, which time, perhaps, might be expected to render too robust, the frequent objection to Scottish beauty, but which, in her present early age, was slender and taper, with that graceful and easy sweep of outline which at once indicates health and beautiful proportion of parts.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

She walks in quickly, but without haste; dressed in her mutch, her neckerchief, her white dimity short-gown, her black bombazine petticoat, showing her white worsted stockings and her carpet-shoes.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Mammy's everyday attire consisted of a calico short-gown, with large figures, and a stuff petticoat, with a cap whose huge ruffles stood up in all directions; made after a pattern which I have never since beheld, and in which the crown formed the principal feature.

A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church

As picturesque, too, was her short, blue woollen petticoat, and white short-gown, that "half hid and half revealed" the unconstrained grace of healthy mountain-nature; and more modest the happy look with which she received the letter at last, and flew with it like a bird back to the red nest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

She walks in quickly, but without haste; dressed in her mutch, her neckerchief, her white dimity short-gown, her black bombazine petticoat, showing her white worsted stockings and her carpet-shoes.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

It seems a dream to her, that she who sits there now reeling yarn in her stuff petticoat and white short-gown is the same who took the arm of Colonel Burr amid the blaze of wax-lights and the sweep of silks and rustle of plumes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

"Take off the tartan, ladies!" she screamed; "off with men's apparel and on with the short-gown."

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The good wife, in linsey-woolsey short-gown and red petticoat steps lightly back and forth in calf pumps beside the great wheel, or poising gracefully on the right foot, the left hand extended with the roll or bat, while with a wheel finger in the other, she gives the wheel a few swift turns for a final twist to the long-drawn thread of wool or tow.

The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

She was round as a ball, seventy years of age, and dressed always in short gray petticoats, black short-gown, and close white cap.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various