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101Empire gown — noun A gown with low neckline and high waist such as was worn during the first French Empire • • • Main Entry: ↑empire …
102powdering-gown — powˈdering gown noun A loose dressing gown worn while the hair was being powdered • • • Main Entry: ↑powder …
103bed|gown — «BEHD GOWN», noun. 1. a nightgown. 2. British Dialect. a loose jacket worn by women of the working class …
104Silk gown — Silk Silk, n. [OE. silk, selk, AS. seolc, seoloc; akin to Icel. silki, SW. & Dan. silke; prob. through Slavic from an Oriental source; cf. Lith. szilkai, Russ. shelk , and also L. sericum Seric stuff, silk. Cf. {Sericeous}. {Serge} a woolen stuff …
105Geneva gown — noun Etymology: from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva Date: 1820 a loose large sleeved black academic gown widely used as a vestment by members of the Protestant clergy …
106tea gown — noun Date: 1878 a semiformal gown of fine materials in graceful flowing lines worn especially for afternoon entertaining at home …
107Delphos gown — Mrs. Condé Nast wearing one of the famous Fortuny tea gowns. This one has no tunic but is finely pleated, in the Fortuny manner, and falls in long lines, closely following the figure, to the floor. This is the Grecian style Delphos gown, created… …
108Woman in a Dressing Gown — is a 1957 Golden Globe winning film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay was written by Ted Willis and the cinematographer was Gilbert Taylor. PlotThe Prestons are an apparently happy London household, made up of wife Amy (Yvonne Mitchell) …
109Tea-gown — (engl., spr. tī gaun, »Teegewand«), Modebezeichnung für das fashionable Kleid zum »5 Uhr Tee« (s. Five o clock tea) …
110cap and gown — a ceremonial mortarboard and gown worn by faculty, students, etc., as at commencement. Cf. academic costume. [1855 60] * * * …
