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Definition of Bedgowns
1. bedgown [n] - See also: bedgown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedgowns
Literary usage of Bedgowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Chaucer hae bratt = cloak (Cant. Tales, 16, 349). We had nought on but our hats,
an' bits o" blue bedgowns, an' brats; see ye may think we ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Three bedgowns girt about them. Four-cornered shields in their hands, ...
Three blue mantles around them, and three bedgowns with red insertion over them. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East by Church Missionary Society (1822)
"... a set Women's Printed Cotton or White Calico bedgowns. — Housewife or Calico
Shifts. Coloured printed Cotton Shawls and Handkerchiefs, of all sorts. ..."
4. China and Lower Bengal: Being "The Times" Correspondence from China in the by George Wingrove Cooke (1861)
"Mr. Alabaster showed him some portraits in an Illustrated News of ladies in
ball-room dress. Yeh was scandalized ; that women should wear bedgowns was ..."
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