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

Her black stuff gown was dreadful torn and ruined by the sea-water, sir, and so, as I was about her height, I made bold to offer her one of mine in its place.

From Donald and Dorothy by Dodge, Mary Mapes

There stood before him a very young girl in a plain, gray stuff gown, her dark hair simply parted, and braided at the back of her head.

From Saint Michael A Romance by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Grandmother, in her clean stuff gown and apron, is mounted upon a chair to stick a twig of holly on the tall clock in the corner.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven

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