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wrapping gowns

wrapping gowns is the plural of wrapping gown.

Meaning of wrapping gown

Noun

wrapping gown (plural wrapping gowns)

  1. (obsolete) A nightgown.
    • But she had been alarmed by the tumult […] and, throwing a wrapping-gown around her, ran, by a private passage, to the king's apartment, where she found the dauphin […].1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, V.2

Questions about wrapping gowns

What is wrapping gowns the plural of?
Wrapping gowns is the plural of wrapping gown.

Words near wrapping gowns in the dictionary

  1. wrappest
  2. wrappeth
  3. wrapping
  4. wrapping around one's little finger
  5. wrapping gown
  6. wrapping gowns
  7. wrapping in cotton wool
  8. wrapping in the flag
  9. wrapping one's arms around
  10. wrapping one's brain around
  11. wrapping one's head around

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