smoking-jacket love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jacket for wear while smoking.

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Examples

  • ROSMER, wearing a smoking-jacket, is sitting at the writing-table on a high-backed chair.

    Rosmersholm 2008

  • ROSMER, wearing a smoking-jacket, is sitting at the writing-table on a high-backed chair.

    Rosmersholm 2008

  • I found myself feeling a lot like Hugh Hefner, especially when wearing my dark satin smoking-jacket and surrounded by a bevy of buxoum beauties in bikinis and occasionally out of them.

    adventures in the slow state 2006

  • I found myself feeling a lot like Hugh Hefner, especially when wearing my dark satin smoking-jacket and surrounded by a bevy of buxoum beauties in bikinis and occasionally out of them.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Pyetushkov came out of the back room in a parti-coloured smoking-jacket with tucked-up sleeves, and a strainer in his hand.

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • He was dapper in a mauve smoking-jacket and matching slacks.

    Say No to Murder Nancy Pickard 1985

  • He was dapper in a mauve smoking-jacket and matching slacks.

    Say No to Murder Nancy Pickard 1985

  • The old gentleman in the smoking-jacket addressed me.

    Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

  • The taller, whom I took to be one of the hotel guests, was wearing a smoking-jacket and black and grey plaid trousers; the other had on a winged collar and a black frock coat.

    Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

  • When he stood up to greet us his huge hands poked out of a bright red silk smoking-jacket with gold-braid frogging.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

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