stuff gown

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

Hitherto, for years past, she had worn a brown stuff gown, hardly ever varying even the shade of the sombre colour,—so that her daughter had perhaps never seen her otherwise clad.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

That one of the two women should be there, on the prince's right, sitting stiff-backed in her plum-colored stuff gown, with a black-lace scarf half-hiding her short hair, was easy to understand.

From The Woman of Mystery by Leblanc, Maurice

In the latter case, her ordinary dress is black stockings, a stuff gown, a cap, and a neck-handkerchief pinned cornerwise behind.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest