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bed-jacketed

bed-jacketed adjective: wearing a bed-jacket.

Adjective

bed-jacketed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a bed-jacket.
    • The character of the bed-jacketed grouch, Sheridan Whiteside, had meantime become identified in the mind of the show-going public with the real Alexander Woollcott.1945, Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Encore”, in A. Woollcott: His Life And His World, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 338
    • Mrs. Marrable was already propped against her pillows, bed-jacketed and hair-netted, her book open.1962, Ursula Curtiss, The Forbidden Garden, page 3

Examples of bed-jacketed in a sentence

  • Her breakfast tray, a great wicker affair sprouting a yellow rose, bridged her knees, while combed, powdered and bed-jacketed, she was nested in little pillows.1969, John Leggett, Who Took the Gold Away, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 292:
  • She waved a bed-jacketed arm in mild amusement, sending out a waft of expensive French perfume.1974, Bill Knox, from scripts by Edward Boyd, “A Tale of Two Cities”, in The View from Daniel Pike, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press...
  • Did the obstetrical nurse deposit me into my mother’s bed-jacketed arms wrapped in a lavender blanket?1990, Rosemary Curb, “Core of the Apple: Mother-Daughter Fusion/Separation in Three Recent Lesbian Plays”, in Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgow...
  • And if he’s a boxer …’ Leah lifted her bed-jacketed shoulders, and her hands, high, ‘… a boxer sounds like a chancer.1997, Margaret Pemberton, Coronation Summer, Long Preston: Magna Large Print Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192:

Forms of bed-jacketed

alternative formbedjacketed

Origin of bed-jacketed

From bed-jacket + -ed.

Questions about bed-jacketed

What does bed-jacketed mean?
Bed-jacketed means wearing a bed-jacket.
How do you use bed-jacketed in a sentence?
Her breakfast tray, a great wicker affair sprouting a yellow rose, bridged her knees, while combed, powdered and bed-jacketed, she was nested in little pillows.
What part of speech is bed-jacketed?
Bed-jacketed is an adjective.

Words near bed-jacketed in the dictionary

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

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