teagowned

English

Adjective

teagowned (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of tea-gowned
   • 1897 August, Lillian Ferguson, “A Difficult Wooing”, in The Traveler. An Illustrated Family Journal of Travel and Recreation., volume X, number 2, San Francisco, Calif., page 28:

     A girl on a stage coach in sailor hat and plain linen duster, with the warm breeze bringing tan and freckles to her face and the dust peppering her back hair, is a very different being from her other befrilled and teagowned self at home, pouring afternoon Hyson.

   • 1928 April 29, Mrs. Pat Campbell [stage name; Beatrice Cornwallis-West], quotee, “Modern Dress Held Inferior for Acting: Difficult to Play Tragic Role in 1928 Garb, Says Mrs. Campbell”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., page 2:

     The lovely young actress of today looks at the tired teagowned, romantic ladies who were the fashion—not a hundred years ago—somewhere before 1914, with a certain amount of envy.

   • 1995, Charlotte Bingham, Debutantes, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 44:

     Although Herbert was expecting no less, at the same time he found that as he placed his hat and cane on the hall table and followed the hall boy to the library door behind which he well knew his teagowned hostess would be waiting for him, it still seemed hardly possible that he, Herbert Forrester, a lad who once went bare-footed, was going to be received in this manner by the mistress of the Prince of Wales.