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单词 night-gown
释义 ˈnight-gown
[f. night n. + gown n.]
1. A loose gown specially used for putting on at (or during the) night in place of the ordinary clothes; a dressing-gown. Now only Hist.
a1400Bk. Curtasye 483 in Babees Bk., Þen bryngis he forthe nyȝtgoun also, And spredys a tapet and qwysshens two.1541Rutland MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) IV. 321 Rydyng to Hwlle, to bere my Lorde a nyght gowne, iiijs.1546Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 240 A gowne furrid withe lambe whiche is my nyghte gowne.1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. 155 His night gowne was made of blacke Veluet, after the French use laced about, with lase of golde.1607Dekker & Webster Sir T. Wyatt Wks. 1873 III. 128 Pleaseth the Lady Iane, ile helpe her off with her night-Gowne.1667Pepys Diary 27 Aug., She..ran out in her smock into her aviary..; and thither her woman brought her her nightgown.1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1871/4 A Night-gown of striped Sattin cloth⁓colour and Buff, another for a man about the same colours.1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1736) I. 177 He starts up in the Bed, feels for his Night-Gown to rise..and see what was the matter.1749Smollett Gil Blas iv. x, She put on a thin night-gown which lay at the bed's feet.1777Sheridan Trip Scarb. i. Scene ii, a Dressing Room. Lord Foppington, in his Night Gown.1808Scott in Lockhart (1839) I. 27, I found him..wrapped in a tartan night gown.1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet II. 43 The country parson went dressed in a grey-striped calamanco nightgown.
fig.1728Pope Dunc. ii. 38 No meagre, muse-rid mope,..In a dun night-gown of his own loose skin.
2. A kind of gown worn by ladies in the 18th cent., originally as an evening dress. Obs.
1700S. Centlivre Perj. Husb. iii. ii, But, Madam, what's to be done with your brocade night-gown you tore last night?1745in Dunbar Social Life (1865) 123 All plain silk night-gowns [are] worn with different coloured sattens sewed on the brest.1756Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III 403 Long hoods are worn close under the chin, tied behind... Nightgowns worn without hoops.1778Ibid. Ser. ii. II. 380 The Queen was in a hat and an Italian night-gown of purple lutestring.
3. A light garment worn in bed, now spec. one worn by women and children.
a1822Byron Juan xvi. cxi, He was undrest, Saving his night-gown.1851Meredith Love in the Valley xi, When from bed she rises clothed from neck to ankle In her long night gown sweet as boughs of May.1891Hardy Tess (1900) 157/2 The skirts of her dressing-gown and the embroidery of her night-gown flowed upon the floor.
Hence ˈnight-gowned a., dressed in a night-gown.
c1860Mrs. Spofford in Casquet of Lit. (1896) IV. 28 The four pattering night-gowned imps.1899Kipling Stalky 176 A nightgowned twelve-year-old leaped from his bed.
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