Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gown suitable for wearing in the morning.

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Examples

  • The Earl of Murray was clad in a sad-coloured morning-gown, with a cap and slippers of the same cloth, but, even in this easy deshabillĂ©, held his sheathed rapier in his hand, a precaution which he adopted when receiving strangers, rather in compliance with the earnest remonstrances of his friends and partisans, than from any personal apprehensions of his own.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Lady Jane, in her morning-gown, was up and above stairs in the nursery superintending the toilettes of her children and listening to the morning prayers which the little creatures performed at her knee.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • His night-cap and morning-gown, had whilome been of tartan, but, equally cautious and frugal, the honest Bailie had got them dyed black, lest their original ill-omened colour might remind his visitors of his unlucky excursion to Derby.

    Waverley 2004

  • I found just risen, in his morning-gown, and slippers.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • 'Good Ged!' was the cry from the morning-gown standing quivering at the door.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Such a Bohemian was he that he would be quite satisfied if his girl would walk out to him, and become his wife, with any morning-gown on and with any old hat that might come, readiest to hand.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • Stella may ride by, and see Presto in his morning-gown in the garden, and so go up with Joe to the Hill of Bree, and round by

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Mayakin, in a greasy morning-gown, a counting-board in his hand, began to move about in his leather-covered arm-chair impatiently, and said with animation:

    The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

  • This done, he spreads over her the richly-lined India morning-gown presented to her a few days ago by the Judge, who, as she says, so wantonly betrayed her, and on whom she sought revenge.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • Masses of glossy dark hair fell over the delicate hand that supported her head; her morning-gown, of pink French muslin, fell apart, and revealed a white embroidered skirt, from beneath which obtruded one small foot, in an open-work silk stocking; the slipper having fallen to the ground.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

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