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The girl in short dresses is your daughter, the young man in riding breeches is your son, and the woman in the teagown is your charming wife. "
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous
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The girl in the short dresses is my grandmother, the young fellow in riding breeches is my wife, and the woman in the teagown is my ten-year-old daughter, who likes to dress up in her great-grandmother's dresses. "
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous
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"To the shrine of our Lady of the crimson teagown," I ventured.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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A group including Mr.. Eli, the Kembles, and Mr. Hazzard would gather in the Becker back parlor, Mr.. Becker, relieved of corsets and in a dark-blue foulard teagown shotted all over with tiny pink rosebuds, presiding over a folding table with a glass bowl of the "baby pretzels" in its center.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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One or two persons stared at seeing a woman come out of that hotel in a teagown and without a hat.
The Magician 1919
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Had I really and truly liked the teagown she wore the other night?
We Three Gouverneur Morris 1914
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"She don't?" mocked Balcome, glaring at the teagown.
Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913
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Then she entered, slowly, gracefully, allowing the teagown to trail.
Apron-Strings Eleanor Gates 1913
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And after living a respectable life for years she either goes on living a respectable life, and stays with her sister's children while the family goes on a motor tour, or takes to serving high-balls instead of afternoon tea, while wearing a teagown of some passionate shade.
'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' Mary Roberts Rinehart 1910
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Much to her surprise, Miss Meakin, who was now robed in a flimsy and not too clean teagown, had not the slightest interest in knowing if Mavis had recovered her property; indeed, she had forgotten that Mavis had lost anything.
qroqqa commented on the word teagown
What kind of life is that, sitting around in a teagown, counting her pearls?
—Dorothy Parker, 'The Bolt behind the Blue'
November 12, 2008