“bedgown”的英英意思

单词

bedgown

释义

bedgown|ˈbɛdgaʊn|
[see gown.]
1. A woman's night-gown or ‘night-dress.’
1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans I. xiii. 120 No night⁓cap.., fetid bed-gown, or greasy sack, were appendages to the bodies of these agreeable women.1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. vii. 43 Her bed-gowns, and..under-petticoats.c1860Whittier Sisters iii, Annie rose up in her bed-gown white.
2. A kind of jacket worn by women of the working class in the north.
c1806D. Wordsworth Tour Scotl. in Jrnls. (1941) I. 257 The maid-servant..was..dressed in a white bed-gown.a1823― Second Tour Scotl. in Ibid. II. 341 Pity the dress of the young at harvest work is so slovenly. Loose Bed-gowns mostly of white calico.1827Scott in Lockhart (1839) IX. 168 The women had no other dress than a bed-gown and petticoat.1863Kingsley Water Bab. 52 The nicest old woman that ever was seen, in her red petticoat and short dimity bedgown.
Hence bedgowny a. colloq.
1885Pall Mall G. 30 Apr. 6/1 Sloppy, bed-gowny, décollettée dresses.

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