Tea-gowned
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wearing a tea-gown. not-comparable
"She wears her black silk every day, a trailin’ on the ground, / Leastwise, a trailin’ on the floor; ’tis called I b’lieve, tea-gowned, / An’ frills an’ lace, ’an hot-house flowers, such waste, it worried me, / Rememberin’ Jotham Peckham’s kin, as poor as poor could be."
Example
More examples"She wears her black silk every day, a trailin’ on the ground, / Leastwise, a trailin’ on the floor; ’tis called I b’lieve, tea-gowned, / An’ frills an’ lace, ’an hot-house flowers, such waste, it worried me, / Rememberin’ Jotham Peckham’s kin, as poor as poor could be."
Etymology
From tea-gown + -ed.
More for "tea-gowned"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.