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tea-gowned en · ADJ

Etymology

From tea-gown + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a tea-gown.
   • “[…]Do you know,” and she turned to the group of tea-gowned dames and damsels who were making a move stairwards—“do you know that Mrs. Jackson Lafaye has arrived at last?[…]” 1891, Rita [pen name; Eliza Humphreys], “Politics and People”, in The Man in Possession, New York, N.Y.: Hovendon Company, […], page 166:
   • Over tea and buttered toast, with feet on the fender, slippered and tea-gowned, to the adjunct of the fragrant cigarette, what pleasanter theme than one’s neighbours’ faults and peccadilloes? 1892 November 12, Violet Greville, ““Place aux Dames””, in The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper., number 1,198, London, page 588:
   • She wears her black silk every day, a trailin’ on the ground, / Leastwise, a trailin’ on the floor; ’tis called I b’lieve, tea-gowned, / An’ frills an’ lace, ’an hot-house flowers, such waste, it worried me, / Rememberin’ Jotham Peckham’s kin, as poor as poor could be. 1889 November, Margaret E[lizabeth] Sangster, “Thanksgivin’ Pumpkin Pies”, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, volume VI, number 12, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 7:
   • Lady Malcolm, presiding bejewelled and tea-gowned over a silver teatray, thought that Diana, well bred, well mannered, beautiful and seemingly biddable, would make an excellent wife for her good-looking son and encouraged them to wander on the hills in the long Scottish evenings. 2003, Anne de Courcy, chapter IV, in Diana Mosley, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 33:

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