What is "gowns"

Usage examples of "gowns".

Carla, one of the house servants here, is also an excellent seamstress and has been altering one of my gowns for you.

Whereas before she had thought herself lucky to find in a store an attractive dress that hundreds of other women would also wear, these had been painstakingly assembled just for her, from the sheer underwear and nightgowns that were made from the finest lawn and silk, with lace created by nuns, of all people, to the day dresses and gowns of every color of the rainbow.

She felt guilty for the clothing she wore, realizing that the cost of one of her gowns would have bought decent clothes for all the laughing children she had just met.

I think both of us will have to take a good look at the gowns and decide.

I should say that ladies wore nothing but leaves in the day it was built, for it had six or seven slight gowns laid carelessly in it now, that made the shelves groan, and a crinoline cage, against which the doors could not be fastened.

And I was good at working hard, on little things: I began to take a kind of pleasure in the keeping of her gowns, the tidying of her pins and combs and boxes.

Until she came I did what we had planned, and got together all the gowns and shoes and bits and pieces we had agreed ought to be taken.

I have grown used to my gloves and my hard-boned gowns, and flinch at the first unloosening of the strings.

I cannot say, but I imagine her fingering the silks of my gowns, trying out my boots, my gloves, my sashes.

How many slippers, how many strait gowns, how many gloves, have I outgrown or outworn?

The day is mild, and damp: our shoes, as we walk, press dew from the springing green earth and mark our gowns with streaks of mud.

The gowns are all of silk: one of violet, with yellow ribbon trimming it, another of green with a silver stripe, and a third of crimson.

She glanced at her two sisters, dressed in identical gowns of palest pink.

In the open wardrobe her gowns could be seen, hanging neatly on pegs beside his tunics.

Several servants moved about, stoking the fire in the great stone fireplace, setting out an assortment of beautiful gowns on a fur-covered bed.