Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of tea-gowned.
The lovely young actress of today looks at the tired teagowned, romantic ladies who were the fashion—not a hundred years ago—somewhere before 1914, with a certain amount of envy.
1928 April 29, Mrs. Pat Campbell [stage name; Beatrice Cornwallis-West], quotee, “Modern Dress Held Inferior for Acting: Difficult to Play Tragic Role in 1928 Garb, Says Mrs. Campbell”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., page 22 more examples
A girl on a stage coach in sailor hat and plain linen duster, with the warm breeze bringing tan and freckles to her face and the dust peppering her back hair, is a very different being from her other befrilled and teagowned self at home, pouring afternoon Hyson.
1897 August, Lillian Ferguson, “A Difficult Wooing”, in The Traveler. An Illustrated Family Journal of Travel and Recreation., volume X, number 2, San Francisco, Calif., page 28Although Herbert was expecting no less, at the same time he found that as he placed his hat and cane on the hall table and followed the hall boy to the library door behind which he well knew his teagowned hostess would be waiting for him, it still seemed hardly possible that he, Herbert Forrester, a lad who once went bare-footed, was going to be received in this manner by the mistress of the Prince of Wales.
1995, Charlotte Bingham, Debutantes, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 44
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