Gownlet

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A little gown.

    "Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so."

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"Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so."

Etymology

From gown + -let.

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