wrapping gown

plural wrapping gowns

1. obsoleteA nightgown.

   But she had been alarmed by the tumult […] and, throwing a wrapping-gown around her, ran, by a private passage, to the king's apartment, where she found the dauphin […].

   1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, V.2

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   You are quite a stout gentleman to what you were last week, and, when your collar is properly adjusted, your hair brushed, and your wrapping gown, or even your frock coat does devoir aright, make a very tolerable appearance.

   1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 189