bed-jacketed

• bedjacketed

From bed-jacket +‎ -ed.

bed-jacketed (not comparable)

1. Wearing a bed-jacket.
   • 1945, Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Encore”, in A. Woollcott: His Life And His World, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 338:

     The character of the bed-jacketed grouch, Sheridan Whiteside, had meantime become identified in the mind of the show-going public with the real Alexander Woollcott.

   • 1962, Ursula Curtiss, The Forbidden Garden, page 3:

     Mrs. Marrable was already propped against her pillows, bed-jacketed and hair-netted, her book open.

   • 1969, John Leggett, Who Took the Gold Away, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 292:

     Her breakfast tray, a great wicker affair sprouting a yellow rose, bridged her knees, while combed, powdered and bed-jacketed, she was nested in little pillows.

   • 1974, Bill Knox, from scripts by Edward Boyd, “A Tale of Two Cities”, in The View from Daniel Pike, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, page 113:

     She waved a bed-jacketed arm in mild amusement, sending out a waft of expensive French perfume.

   • 1990, Rosemary Curb, “Core of the Apple: Mother-Daughter Fusion/Separation in Three Recent Lesbian Plays”, in Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgow, editors, Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, part III (Lesbian Themes, Sources), page 355:

     Long after I had announced my lesbian identity in a very public way, I asked my mother how long she had known that I was a lesbian. Initially I was shocked by her answer. Later I thought, “But of course!” She said, “I always knew.” Always? In utero? Did the obstetrical nurse deposit me into my mother’s bed-jacketed arms wrapped in a lavender blanket?

   • 1996, Jessica Steele, With His Ring, Mills & Boon, published 1997, →ISBN, page 84:

     For, in doing so, in remembering that aristocratic, satin-bed-jacketed figure, she remembered also her look of frailty, the very serious heart surgery she had recently undergone—and Sabina was weakened.

   • 1997, Margaret Pemberton, Coronation Summer, Long Preston: Magna Large Print Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192:

     ‘Then I’ll ask your Aunt Carrie what sort of a young man this young man is. A chancer you don’t want. And if he’s a boxer …’ Leah lifted her bed-jacketed shoulders, and her hands, high, ‘… a boxer sounds like a chancer. Dolly. Trust me. I’ve been around a long time. I know these things.’

   • 1998, Book Review Digest, page 27:

     […] a bed-jacketed and rhinestone tiaraed queen eating grapefruit and smiling for the press […]

   • 1998, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Namako: Sea Cucumber, Coffee House Press, →ISBN, pages 145–146:

     Her face, helmeted with steely-gray hair, was barely visible at the head of the bed, and her thin, bed-jacketed arms stretched on either side of her on top of the heavy futons, so that she looked like a pharaoh or the top of a marble sarcophagus.

   • 2002, Caroline Slate, The House on Sprucewood Lane, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 241:

     Melanie, propped and bed-jacketed, wore her white-rabbit mask, rosy eyes and nose, like a badge of privilege.

   • 2004, Pat Rahmann, chapter 10, in First Reveille, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:

     The bedside clock reads only five minutes past six, but he flings back the covers, tearing the sheet from my grasp to reveal my spread out, night-gowned, bed-jacketed figure.