English

Noun

bedjacket ‎(plural bedjackets)

1. A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Sham,"

     She hauled the bed from her room out into the middle of the Studio before the open fire and lay there in state, done up in fancy bed-jackets, smoking innumerable cigarettes and entertaining anybody whom she could persuade to visit.

Alternative forms

• bed-jacket

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