bedgown (bedgoun)

1. A night-gown or night-dre .- 2. A kind of jacket like a dre ing sack, usually of printed calico, worn in Scotland by women of the working-cla , generally together with a drugget or colored flannel petticoat. Also called short - gown. She had wooden shoes, a short red petticoat, a printed cotton bed - gown ; her face was broad, her physiognomy eminently stupid. Charlotte Brontë , The Profe or, vii. bed-hangings (bed'hangingz), n . pl . The valance and curtains of a bed.