travelling-dress

See, even young Aldermanbury, the tallow-merchant, who has just stepped on board, has got a travelling-dress gaping all over with pockets; and little Tom

The Book of Snobs 2006

She had to explain that she had nothing but a travelling-dress; but they waived that objection, and allowed her to “come as she was.”

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

She stood in her travelling-dress, wondering if she had forgotten anything.

The Years 2004

My little packing here can be completed in ten minutes — my travelling-dress assumed in ten minutes more.

The Woman in White 2003

Johanna assistance with the tickets, he stood till the train went, talking to Ephie; and he long retained a picture of her, standing with one foot on the step, in a becoming travelling-dress, a hat with a veil flying from it, and a small hand-bag slung across her shoulder, laughing and dimpling, and well aware of the admiring glances that were cast at her.

Maurice Guest 2003

Bach was immediately sent for -- he had not time even to change his travelling-dress -- and with many excuses he presented himself to the King.

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

She didn't go at once and get off her travelling-dress, but trifled about in a kind of expectancy, a little fever going and coming in her cheeks, and turning at any noise.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

My gray and dingy travelling-dress grew abject, and burned into my soul like the tunic of Nessus.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

Lady Simpson when it was time for her to put on her travelling-dress.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

She was dressed very plainly, in a dark silk travelling-dress, and her air was remarkable only for its simple quietness, though her large eyes turned with a look of eager haste from form to form, as if she were searching for some one.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens