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bed-gowned

bed-gowned is the alternative form of bedgowned.

Meaning of bedgowned

Adjective

bedgowned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a bedgown.
    • An anecdote is related of a member having succeeded, in Sir Thomas Maitland’s accidental absence, in having a change which he thought unimportant made upon some part of the project. Sir Thomas, on being informed of it by his ever ready secretary, returned, slippered, pantalooned, and bedgowned as...1852 November, “The Ionian Islands and their Government”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLVI, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], page 599

Questions about bed-gowned

What is bed-gowned the alternative form of?
Bed-gowned is the alternative form of bedgowned.

Words near bed-gowned in the dictionary

  1. bed-covers
  2. bed-fast
  3. bed-fasts
  4. bed-frame
  5. bed-frames
  6. bed-gowned
  7. bed-headed
  8. bed-hop
  9. bed-hopped
  10. bed-hopper
  11. bed-hoppers

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