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bed-jacketed en · ADJ

Etymology

From bed-jacket + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a bed-jacket.
   • Long after I had announced my lesbian identity in a very public way, I asked my mother how long she had known that I was a lesbian. Initially I was shocked by her answer. Later I thought, “But of course!” She said, “I always knew.” Always? In utero? 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, editors, Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, part III (Lesbian Themes, Sources), page 355:
   • […]a bed-jacketed and rhinestone tiaraed queen eating grapefruit and smiling for the press[…] 1998, Book Review Digest, page 27:
   • 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:
   • ‘Then I’ll ask your Aunt Carrie what sort of a young man this young man is. A chancer you don’t want. And if he’s a boxer …’ Leah lifted her bed-jacketed shoulders, and her hands, high, ‘… a boxer sounds like a chancer. Dolly. Trust me. I’ve been around a long time. I know these things.’ 1997, Margaret Pemberton, Coronation Summer, Long Preston: Magna Large Print Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192:
   • Melanie, propped and bed-jacketed, wore her white-rabbit mask, rosy eyes and nose, like a badge of privilege. 2002, Caroline Slate, The House on Sprucewood Lane, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 241:
   • Mrs. Marrable was already propped against her pillows, bed-jacketed and hair-netted, her book open. 1962, Ursula Curtiss, The Forbidden Garden, page 3:
   • 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, →LCCN, page 113:
   • Her face, helmeted with steely-gray hair, was barely visible at the head of the bed, and her thin, bed-jacketed arms stretched on either side of her on top of the heavy futons, so that she looked like a pharaoh or the top of a marble sarcophagus. 1998, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Namako: Sea Cucumber, Coffee House Press, →ISBN, pages 145–146:
   • For, in doing so, in remembering that aristocratic, satin-bed-jacketed figure, she remembered also her look of frailty, the very serious heart surgery she had recently undergone—and Sabina was weakened. 1996, Jessica Steele, With His Ring, Mills & Boon, published 1997, →ISBN, page 84:
   • The bedside clock reads only five minutes past six, but he flings back the covers, tearing the sheet from my grasp to reveal my spread out, night-gowned, bed-jacketed figure. 2004, Pat Rahmann, chapter 10, in First Reveille, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:
   • 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:

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