stuff gown

British  

noun

1. a woollen gown worn by a barrister who has not taken silk

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stuff gown

There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Doctors of Divinity and Masters of Arts wear a stuff gown, with two long sleeves, terminating in a semicircle. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel

I have seen a black stuff gown fitting closely round the throat pass muster for the first, and a gray frockcoat for the second.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

Without the exercise of much choice she purchased a black bonnet and veil, also a black stuff gown; a black mantle she already wore.

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

She wore a violet turnover, a large wrapper, a brown stuff gown that hardly reached her ankles, and thick worsted stockings, but no shoes.

From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir