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Definition of Bed jacket
1. Noun. A lightweight jacket worn over bedclothes (as when sitting in bed).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bed Jacket
Literary usage of Bed jacket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"... the name " bed jacket" coming from an embroidered scarlet jacket presented to
him by a British officer during the Revolution; saw service on the ..."
2. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"... Republic—The Blue Jacket—Loss of the Blue Jacket—The Marco Polo—The Bed
Jacket—The Lightning —The James Saines—The Donald McKay—The Scotch clippers—The ..."
3. Lives of Celebrated Americans: Comprising Biographies of Three Hundred and by Benson John Lossing (1869)
"There the eloquence of bed jacket beamed forth in great splendor ... bed jacket
was prominent at a council held at the mouth of the Detroit river, in 1786. ..."
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