powdering gown
English
Noun
powdering gown (plural powdering gowns)
- (now historical) A loose dressing gown worn while the hair or wig was being powdered. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 130:
- I took only my coat off, and wrapping myself in a flannel powdering gown, I threw myself on the embroidered counterpane, and soon after sunk into forgetfulness.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman:
- I think I now see him lolling in an arm-chair, in a dirty powdering-gown, soiled linen, ungartered stockings, and tangled hair, yawning and stretching himself.
- 1802, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 423:
- My beloved Mr Lock, in his powdering Gown, and half shaved, followed, to congratulate me […] .
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 130:
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