Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
silk gown , under silk, a.
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Examples
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When they went away, she always put on the silk-gown and the jet-black row of curls represented in that portrait (her hair was reddish-grey in the kitchen), established herself in the breakfast-room, put her spectacles between two particular leaves of Doctor Buchan's Domestic Medicine, and sat looking over the blind all day until they came back again.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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'Well, but you can buy a new one; and I'm sure it is high time you should get yourself another silk-gown.
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Mrs. Dempster came to consult me as to whether Mrs.Kirkpatrick would be offended, if she sent her a new breadth for her lilac silk-gown, in place of one that had been spoilt by Mrs.Dempster's servant spilling the coffee over it the night before; and she took it and was thankful, for all she's dressed in pearl-grey satin now!
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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