tea-gowned

English

Alternative forms

• teagowned

Etymology

From tea-gown +‎ -ed.

Adjective

tea-gowned (not comparable)

1. Wearing a tea-gown.
   • 1889 November, Margaret E[lizabeth] Sangster, “Thanksgivin’ Pumpkin Pies”, in The Ladies’ Home Journal, volume VI, number 12, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 7:

     She wears her black silk every day, a trailin’ on the ground, / Leastwise, a trailin’ on the floor; ’tis called I b’lieve, tea-gowned, / An’ frills an’ lace, ’an hot-house flowers, such waste, it worried me, / Rememberin’ Jotham Peckham’s kin, as poor as poor could be.

   • 1891, Rita [pen name; Eliza Humphreys], “Politics and People”, in The Man in Possession, New York, N.Y.: Hovendon Company, […], page 166:

     “[…] Do you know,” and she turned to the group of tea-gowned dames and damsels who were making a move stairwards—“do you know that Mrs. Jackson Lafaye has arrived at last? […]”

   • 1892 November 12, Violet Greville, ““Place aux Dames””, in The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper., number 1,198, London, page 588:

     Over tea and buttered toast, with feet on the fender, slippered and tea-gowned, to the adjunct of the fragrant cigarette, what pleasanter theme than one’s neighbours’ faults and peccadilloes?

   • 2003, Anne de Courcy, chapter IV, in Diana Mosley, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 33:

     Lady Malcolm, presiding bejewelled and tea-gowned over a silver teatray, thought that Diana, well bred, well mannered, beautiful and seemingly biddable, would make an excellent wife for her good-looking son and encouraged them to wander on the hills in the long Scottish evenings.