schlafrock

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The passajonaiatetz next performed the like office of conducting the bridegroom to the chamber, who put on his _schlafrock_, or nightgown, the married ladies having previously retired.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
As Jos came creaking and puffing up the final stairs, and was speechless when he got to the landing, and began to wipe his face and then to look for No. 92, the room where he was directed to seek for the person he wanted, the door of the opposite chamber, No. 90, was open, and a student, in jack-boots and a dirty schlafrock, was lying on the bed smoking a long pipe; whilst another student in long yellow hair and

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837