Bed-gowned

Quick meaning: Bed-gowned is an adjective meaning Alternative form of bedgowned.

Meaning

Alternative form of bedgowned.

Example Sentences

We could but admire the decorum and politeness—heightened by occasional little acts of well-timed gallantry, displayed by these smock-frocked beaux towards their bed-gowned belles.

The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.

A coach breakfast—what horrible recollections these words conjure up! what head-achery, weary, crampy, teeth-chattery, dusty, dirty, dingy reminiscences! what backslum, stable-yard, bare-armed, red elbowed, bed-gowned, slip-shod associations they present to one’s too-vivid recollection!

As light crept into the square and found her face and figure, the bed-gowned maidservant’s hair and eyes had reflected highlights of the golden stone shaping the house behind her.[…]Shortly after four in the afternoon, Jonys stood staring at the steps the bed-gowned maid had ascended at dawn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedjacketed, ballgowned, bebonneted, be-bonnetted, bed-ridden, be-goggled.

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