Crossword clues for bedgown
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedgown \Bed"gown`\, n. A nightgown.
Wiktionary
n. 1 an article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front; a bedjacket 2 a nightgown
Wikipedia
A bedgown (sometimes bedjacket or shortgown) is an article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front. Bedgowns of lightweight printed cotton fabric were fashionable at-home morning wear in the 18th century. Over time, bedgowns (also called in this context shortgowns) became the staple upper garment of British and American female working-class street wear from the 18th to early 19th centuries, worn over petticoats and often topped with an apron. Made of sturdy cotton, linen, wool or linsey-woolsey, these bedgowns were simply cut to a T-shaped pattern, and were worn overlapped in front or with the front skirts cutaway.
In the Welsh spelling betgwn, the bedgown is part of traditional Welsh costume.
Bedgowns lingered as fashion garments into the mid-20th century, usually under the newer name bedjackets, in the form of short robes or wrappers worn over a nightgown or negligee for warmth and modesty while sitting up in bed for breakfast, reading, or similar pursuits. They had mostly fallen out of fashion by the 1960s.
Usage examples of "bedgown".
Her bedgown was around her waist, his night-shirt was rucked up and he was pushing himself rhythmically against her.
Clad in her clinging muslin chemise she opened the valise to take out her bedgown, then froze in dismay.
My landlord--he was a notary by trade, and by name Ser Torpe--was dismayed to see me in bedgown and slippers.
The air was hot and stifling, her hair and bedgown were absolutely plastered to her with sweat, and someone was burning some vile herb in the fireplace.
Regis threw a furred bedgown about his shoulders and went to see what it was.
Regis threw a furred bedgown about his shoulders and went to see what it was.
She stripped herself down to the skin, promised her weary bones a bath later, and dragged on a bedgown before crawling into the blankets.
Instead, she waited for Kellan to come to a dead halt, and clambered onto her back anyhow, her bedgown rucked up around her legs.
She was wearing a long thin bedgown in some pale color, her hair a luminous cloud.
She would not look at him, only stood smoothing the folds of her bedgown with fingers that trembled a little.
Three blue mantles around them, and three bedgowns with red insertion over them.
Thanys was so surprised she nearly dropped an armful of lace bedgowns.
In opera hats, bedgowns, bonnets, yellow slickers, periwigs, knickers and snoods they paraded under the sun, some of the "women," seen now at closer range, appearing to be men in women's clothing, as though to correct a deficiency and even up the pairings.
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 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.