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  • I'll have tea towel, dressing gown, false beard, toy baa-lamb under one arm.
  • A ligature made from an old sheet and a dressing gown cord were left in the landing and an unusual handwritten note left in the rent book.
  • I always cover up with a dressing gown and, at night, wear a nightie or pyjamas. The Sun
  • And as for my own 'activeness' I've spent most of to-day in my dressing gown drinking tea. Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion
  • Also this week, the United States said it would limit imports from China of knit fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns because sales had been climbing in the U.S. market.
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  • One said we wore dressing gowns when taking a different path to the sheds. Times, Sunday Times
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • So now we have our daily pants choosing ritual in which the Munchkin sticks his head under his dad's dressing gown to see what colour pants he has chosen before tootling off to his own room to choose a matching pair.
  • Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
  • The time constraints meant that she had to testify in full stage make-up and dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Recently she appeared to be showing prospective buyers around the house dressed in a night dress and dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the early mornings he would stand in his dressing gown at the window, sipping a cup of milky coffee, while his valet ran his bath.
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her plum-colored dressing gown did little to conceal the teddy she wore underneath.
  • Reminding herself that her bedmate was a well-known womanizer, Judy slid out of bed, put on her dressing gown and fixed breakfast. Lace
  • Clutching her dressing gown around her, she tiptoed down the landing into the bathroom. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Liza was in there, a dressing gown falling off her shoulders to reveal a hastily retrieved nightie and slippers that were so fluffy they were hardly distinguishable as shoes at all.
  • I scrambled into my dressing gown and half-dashed half-limped down the stairs.
  • You have a special dressing gown for watching box sets in. Times, Sunday Times
  • One said we wore dressing gowns when taking a different path to the sheds. Times, Sunday Times
  • One said we wore dressing gowns when taking a different path to the sheds. Times, Sunday Times
  • She wore a white dressing gown with pink stars after being kept in overnight. The Sun
  • And he swans around in a dressing gown and slippers. The Sun
  • She is hardly knows what to say when she arrives at the home of singer Delysia LaFosse and finds her wearing “the kind of foamy robe, no mere dressing gown, worn by the most famous of stars in seduction scenes in the films.” 2008 November 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • Recently she appeared to be showing prospective buyers around the house dressed in a night dress and dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this is linked by a haunting soundscape of music and song delivered by dishevelled musicians clad in dressing gowns.
  • I rush upstairs, turn on the taps and potter about a bit in my dressing gown until the harsh, loud tone of the telephone interrupts me.
  • And he swans around in a dressing gown and slippers. The Sun
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police acting on a tipoff found the cage - tied with a dressing gown cord - in his bedroom. The Sun
  • White silk pyjamas and a white silk dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Encourage dressing gowns, thermal underwear and woollen jumpers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trousers were full, the knee-length coats belted like dressing gowns. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have a special dressing gown for watching box sets in. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning at breakfast her mother appeared in the doorway tightly bound in a burgundy silk dressing gown. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea. The Sun
  • He blew his nose vigorously, straightened his dressing gown and made a determined effort to regain a measure of composure.
  • He was poncing around in a pair of fluffy slippers/yellow silk dressing gown.
  • Velvet dressing gown or fluffy white dressing gown? Times, Sunday Times
  • I thought very little of it as I got out of the bath, as I wrapped myself in dressing gown, as I walked through the house and lay down on the sofa to watch television.
  • Yesterday a mum turned up in a dressing gown, slippers and pyjamas - in the afternoon. The Sun
  • As she shouted he tried to gag her with the belt from her dressing gown.
  • She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister.
  • She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
  • You and I were supposed to watch with rapt attention, having had our bath and changed into our dressing gown and slippers. Times, Sunday Times
  • And he swans around in a dressing gown and slippers. The Sun
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some were wearing dressing gowns and slippers. Times, Sunday Times
  • And finally, I asked him what his lowest point was, and he said he had locked himself in his mansion in Atlanta for three days and, drapes drawn and windows closed, by himself, in what he called a vomit-stained dressing gown, dobbing at carpet with wet finger tip, trying to find cocaine residue. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Accounts for 'Entertainment Tonight's' Longevity? - February 13, 2001
  • She was wearing a dressing gown, her arms were tied behind her back with a scarf and there was a nylon stocking around her right ankle. The Sun
  • Then you come swooping in, wearing some lacy negligee and a silk dressing gown.
  • Her suitcases were packed and a cereal bowl and milk were set out in her kitchen and she was dressed in her nightclothes and dressing gown.
  • She has been placed in a room on her own in the medical wing of the prison and has had the cords of her dressing gown and pyjamas removed along with her shoe laces.
  • At the moment he was dressed in a pair of old slippers and a worn dressing gown, thrown over a set of striped flannel pyjamas.
  • After rustling up her favourite linguine with garlic oil and pancetta, Nigella changes into her dressing gown and curls up in bed, alone except for the pasta, to eat and watch telly in silence.
  • After rustling up her favourite linguine with garlic oil and pancetta, Nigella changes into her dressing gown and curls up in bed, alone except for the pasta, to eat and watch telly in silence.
  • I recently shrugged on my dressing gown in the bathroom and became vaguely aware of a spindly alien crawl on my shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although the small massage parlour she ran from her home was not yet open, she headed downstairs in her dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm sitting in my dressing gown and tracksuit bottoms, having spent the whole day in bed.
  • He was wearing a dressing gown and hoodie when he was taken in for questioning. The Sun
  • Back in my room I quickly pulled my hair out of its bun and brushed it neatly, grabbed a nightdress and dressing gown and then went back to Gerald's room.
  • The religious ritual was followed by a public feast – reason enough for the Romans to throw off their cumbersome togas and to don lightweight dressing gowns and pilei soft red caps. 2007 December 22 archive at eternallycool.net
  • Don't do dressing gowns either. Times, Sunday Times
  • I felt embarrassed that so many firefighters and police turned up when all it needed was for me to wear my dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • I felt embarrassed that so many firefighters and police turned up when all it needed was for me to wear my dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning at breakfast her mother appeared in the doorway tightly bound in a burgundy silk dressing gown. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • She was dressed for bed, wearing a green dressing gown over her nightclothes.
  • Also of interest is a rare crimson damask banyan - an early precursor of the dressing gown - of early 18 th-century silk, worn by Thomas Severne, Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to King William III.
  • Wearing only my dressing gown, I tipped over the wheelie bin and reached right to the bottom. Times, Sunday Times
  • He puts on his dressing gown, tearing one of its pockets in his haste, letting marbles scatter across the floor.
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the door my blue dressing gown hung from its hook. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a washbasin, a chair with a tatty dressing gown slung over it, and a window with the curtains drawn.
  • He answered the door and just had a dressing gown on.
  • She is wearing a black dressing gown with a pretty picture of a butterfly, her hair is immaculate and bobbed.
  • It shows a portly man wearing glasses walking naked into a room, then in a dressing gown with a champagne glass in hand. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor handed her his card and twenty dollars in gold, and presently we were escorted to the little parlor with its odiferous atmosphere and tired trappings, where the ancient alienist huddled in his dressing gown beneath a threadbare blanket, shivering despite the robust fire dancing in the hearth. The Monstrumologist
  • She was wearing a gold dressing gown, with a blue sash at the waist, and pink slippers with pom-poms.
  • The time constraints meant that she had to testify in full stage make-up and dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heated rails, large towels and dressing gowns, good smellies: tick, tick, tick. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bathroom door was slightly open when she walked in wearing a silk dressing gown. The Sun
  • In the armoire was a pair of more ornate Moroccan foot coverings, which she thought might go well with the dressing gown Gilbert had been found in. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
  • I reached for the tongs to pick it up and it caught the bottom of my dressing gown.
  • Velvet dressing gown or fluffy white dressing gown? Times, Sunday Times
  • On the door my blue dressing gown hung from its hook. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was beginning to think that I was supposed to rush out in the early morning, hair in curlers, in my pink chenille dressing gown and start laying concrete or similar physical nonsense.
  • She wore a white dressing gown with pink stars after being kept in overnight. The Sun
  • It was a kind of pretension, when he didn't actually seem the pretentious sort, despite the silk dressing gown. THE EXECUTION
  • New dresses, striped dressing gowns, bangles, faux fur, jewelled turbans and Egyptian cotton pillow cases and sheets are among the in-demand items.
  • He was poncing around in a pair of fluffy slippers/yellow silk dressing gown.
  • The current Burberry collection showed dressing gowns in a similarly new light. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ever since that low point in the mid-1990s, when Cherie was photographed on her doorstep wearing a shortie dressing gown, she has been a dedicated follower of the Bharti method.
  • Now I am drawing closed belt of presidential silk dressing gown and opening the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • He tied his dressing gown firmly around him.
  • You slip drowsily into your dressing gown and tiptoe quietly to the top of the stairs.
  • He dashed out in his dressing gown and pulled the driver and passenger from the flames.
  • He was wearing a patterned silk dressing gown with a foulard of the same material partially masking his scraggy neck. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • The next morning at breakfast her mother appeared in the doorway tightly bound in a burgundy silk dressing gown. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • The current Burberry collection showed dressing gowns in a similarly new light. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was wearing a patterned silk dressing gown with a foulard of the same material partially masking his scraggy neck. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • They wore dressing gowns and slippers. The Sun
  • Don't do dressing gowns either. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was wearing a dressing gown and hoodie when he was taken in for questioning. The Sun
  • She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown.
  • I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea. The Sun
  • Of a similar date but prettier is a pair of Chinese-yellow damask shoes together with a matching robe altered to form a dressing gown.
  • He certainly looked the part in a threadbare dressing gown, mirroring the unredeemed Scrooge's threadbare life.
  • Then Little Billy would slip into his dressing gown and climb on to Swan's back and off they would go.
  • Next morning, the flatmates have to laugh at me because I'm sitting in my dressing gown, staring into space with the goofiest grin you can imagine.
  • He was sitting on the bed in his dressing gown, a glass of red wine in his hand, and a big cigar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scrooge sits before the fire in his dressing gown and nightcap thinking of the way that the doorknocker changed form.
  • She wore a white dressing gown with pink stars after being kept in overnight. The Sun
  • Rose finished her speech, gasping slightly for breath, pulling the dressing gown around her further.
  • She was wearing a dressing gown, her arms were tied behind her back with a scarf and there was a nylon stocking around her right ankle. The Sun
  • Dressed in a salmon pink dressing gown and rollers in her silvery hair, the old crone was sat in her favourite old rocking chair, surrounded by a group of people.
  • She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
  • Dressing gowns of various designs were popular and slippers of all shapes and sizes kept the toes warm.
  • And he swans around in a dressing gown and slippers. The Sun
  • Now I am drawing closed belt of presidential silk dressing gown and opening the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • They wore dressing gowns and slippers. The Sun
  • I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea. The Sun
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the early mornings he would stand in his dressing gown at the window, sipping a cup of milky coffee, while his valet ran his bath.
  • Yesterday Allison was able to fuel me with soup and hot chocolate and occasionally mop my fevered brow with the damp sleeve of her dressing gown.
  • He was a stock irritant, an ugly man in a shabby dressing gown over a stained shirt.
  • You and I were supposed to watch with rapt attention, having had our bath and changed into our dressing gown and slippers. Times, Sunday Times
  • She wore a white dressing gown with pink stars after being kept in overnight. The Sun
  • My mum gave us his and hers matching dressing gowns for Christmas.
  • The next morning at breakfast her mother appeared in the doorway tightly bound in a burgundy silk dressing gown. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • I'll be sacked if I try to wriggle out of it," he'd lied and lied, with the cord of the phone around his neck, and across the shambled room Julia engulfed in his dressing gown, aquamarine eyes brimful. Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
  • And finally, I asked him what his lowest point was, and he said he had locked himself in his mansion in Atlanta for three days and, drapes drawn and windows closed, by himself, in what he called a vomit-stained dressing gown, dobbing at carpet with wet finger tip, trying to find cocaine residue. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Accounts for 'Entertainment Tonight's' Longevity? - February 13, 2001
  • White silk pyjamas and a white silk dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Coming down the stairs, half dead in my dressing gown I saw the last of the men in orange rifling through the kitchen drawers, presumably searching for a tardy lemon reamer or rogue potato peeler.
  • Wearing only my dressing gown, I tipped over the wheelie bin and reached right to the bottom. Times, Sunday Times
  • After Grant's death, the Springfield Republican newspaper noted that Gerhardt had spent time at Mt. McGregor and made a model of the General representing him in his chair in his beaver cloth dressing gown, holding his pencil in his right hand and his writing pad on his knee.
  • When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
  • Someone had undressed me during the course of my sleep, so I threw on a dressing gown over my underclothes.
  • White silk pyjamas and a white silk dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • The motorcade flashed its circular lights, stabbing through the night air; the women's hues of dressing gowns were matte and shimmering in the spring air.
  • Women wear less make-up and slob about in a dressing gown, while men shave less often and leave the door open when in the loo. The Sun
  • Police acting on a tipoff found the cage - tied with a dressing gown cord - in his bedroom. The Sun
  • She came sprinting into the hallway in a yellow dressing gown wrapped around her medium frame, curly hair covered in curlers.
  • White silk pyjamas and a white silk dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, I consider myself very lucky to live in a neighbourhood where all the houses are easy shot-put distances from large, mature trees: trees which countrify the landscape, moderate the weather, produce a tawny owl or a spotted woodpecker right next to my bedroom window, and let me wander around all morning in my dressing gown if I want. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • She met him in the hallway, in an old blue dressing gown.
  • White silk pyjamas and a white silk dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Next morning, the flatmates have to laugh at me because I'm sitting in my dressing gown, staring into space with the goofiest grin you can imagine.
  • Mr. Meredith still wore slippers and dressing gown, and his dark hair still fell in uncared-for locks over his high brow. Rainbow Valley
  • You have a special dressing gown for watching box sets in. Times, Sunday Times
  • Protheroe, in padded dressing gown and tasseled cap, laughed and rose to greet his friend.
  • The academicians arrived at the governor's residence and found him in his dressing gown.
  • I make two huge pots of tea and we sit around in our dressing gowns eating croissants and drinking tea. The Sun
  • The bathroom door was slightly open when she walked in wearing a silk dressing gown. The Sun
  • I can say it's "my destiny" to spend the weekend eating leftover Lamb bhuna in my dressing gown while trying to think up unfavourable anagrams of "David Cameron Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • Dior's Fall/Winter Collection Survives Galliano Fracas Getty Images Instead, the French fashion house strove to re-evoke its rich history, sending old-style knickers, black-cashmere capes and dressing gowns down the runway. Dior Show Looks Past Galliano, Evokes Fashion Label's History
  • While the guards still wore their uniform, the nobles were in their nightdresses and dressing gowns.
  • Yesterday a mum turned up in a dressing gown, slippers and pyjamas - in the afternoon. The Sun
  • Some were wearing dressing gowns and slippers. Times, Sunday Times
  • One said we wore dressing gowns when taking a different path to the sheds. Times, Sunday Times
  • I like being able to work in a manky dressing gown.

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