bed-jacketed

alternative bedjacketed

1. not comparableWearing a bed-jacket.

   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

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   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

   Mrs. Marrable was already propped against her pillows, bed-jacketed and hair-netted, her book open.

   1962, Ursula Curtiss, The Forbidden Garden, page 3

   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

   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

   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