bedjackets

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