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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 ground
  2. bed grounds
  3. bed hair
  4. bed head
  5. bed in
  6. bed jacket
  7. bed jackets
  8. bed key
  9. bed linen
  10. bed linens
  11. bed load

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