bed jacket

American  

noun

1. a short jacket worn, usually by a woman, over a nightgown or pajamas, especially while sitting up in bed.

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bed jacket British  

noun

1. a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed

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Etymology

Origin of bed jacket

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

And there, sitting up in bed in a rose-pink bed jacket, was Lady Constance.

From Literature

Field spoke of how intensely Johnston searched to get her Mama Gump hand-knitted pink bed jacket in "Forest Gump" and how she made a quilt from the many costumes in "Lincoln."

From Los Angeles Times

Already the other women with her, the blonde in the short pink bed jacket with the tatty fur trim, has been appropriated, has entered the glass elevator, has ascended out of sight.

From Literature

She smoothed her silky bed jacket and pursed her lips.

From Time

Meant to be worn on their own, or peeping out from under dense cable-knit bed jackets, honeycomb merino sweaters and long, popcorn-stitched cardigans, they underpin much of the line.

From New York Times