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bed-jacket

bed-jacket is the alternative form of bedjacket.

Meaning of bedjacket

Noun

bedjacket (plural bedjackets)

  1. A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.
    • She hauled the bed from her room out into the middle of the Studio before the open fire and lay there in state, done up in fancy bed-jackets, smoking innumerable cigarettes and entertaining anybody whom she could persuade to visit.1944, Emily Carr, “Sham”, in The House of All Sorts, Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., published 1971, page 77

Forms of bed-jacket

pluralbed-jackets

Questions about bed-jacket

What is bed-jacket the alternative form of?
Bed-jacket is the alternative form of bedjacket.

Words near bed-jacket in the dictionary

  1. bed-hoppers
  2. bed-hopping
  3. bed-hops
  4. bed-in
  5. bed-ins
  6. bed-jacket
  7. bed-jacketed
  8. bed-jackets
  9. bed-key
  10. bed-mould
  11. bed-moulds

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