tea-gowns

There were no tea-gowns from London for Eleanor ....

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

But she couldn't help contrasting herself with her stepsisters, whenever they sailed out of the house in their modish tennis-dresses or flirty tea-gowns.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Though what that meant was that Eleanor and the maids got the dubious privilege of doing all of the actual work while Stepmother and "her girls" stood about in their pretty tea-gowns and accepted congratulations.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

The light from the rose-shaded lamp fell on her neck and arms — Soames liked her to dine in a low dress, it gave him an inexpressible feeling of superiority to the majority of his acquaintance, whose wives were contented with their best high frocks or with tea-gowns, when they dined at home.

The Man of Property 2004

Money poured out of the house and returned in the form of tea-gowns from London and enormous hats with elegantly scrolled names on the boxes, delicate shoes from Italy, and gloves from France.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

There were already adults moving among the stalls in summer frocks or tea-gowns and tennis-dresses, and cricket-flannels or summer suits suitable for a day at Brighton Pier, or at the very least, their Sunday best.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Tea time for the Englishman is the hour of relaxation after a day in the open, when he can in his easy clothes receive the homage of the ladies in their beautiful tea-gowns.

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

The old wrappers and tea-gowns had gone to the ragman.

Elsie Marley, Honey Joslyn Gray

Above, the pretty guests in their dainty tea-gowns are sipping Bohea and prattling scandal; below, the domestics are occupied in their household affairs.

The Haunted Chamber A Novel

The modern woman of fashion needs endless morning, afternoon, and evening dresses, tea-gowns, breakfast-dresses, of endless varieties of form, stuff, and color.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various