bed jacket
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5.1
- noun
- /bɛd ˈdʒækɪt/
- Archaic
:
chaqueta de cama
- When he got up to have breakfast, he pulled on his soft bed jacket to stay warm.
Examples
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Ida, propped on pillows in a gold satin bed jacket, did not turn.
Fiction book (2000) -
And I brought you this beautiful new pink bed jacket.
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And you know, I'm really sad that I'll never get to wear a bed jacket.
Fiction book (1994) -
Inside, there was enough tissue paper to last us through Christmas, and wrapped in it was a bed jacket.
Fiction book (1990) -
She wore a pale blue bed jacket, and the hands lying on the white sheets were absolutely still.
Fiction book (1990) -
Antonia never wore bathrobes, only bed jackets, and always insisted they be white.
Fiction book (1996) -
The first day of the rain, Aunt May asked Jada to bring out her white satin sheets and her fuchsia bed jacket, and to wash her hair.
Fiction book (1993) -
"She leans down and hugs Antonia gently, gripping the thin shoulders beneath the satin bed jacket.
Fiction book (1996) -
She was wearing a cream-colored, quilted bed jacket and a kind of turban made of purple crushed silk, which, instead of evoking a dancer's ageless rigor, as intended, made her look more like a down.
Fiction book (2002) -
She wore a cozy bed jacket while reading in bed during the chilly evening.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A short coat that reaches the waist or hips and fastens at the front
A loose, comfortable garment women wore at home in the past
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bed' (the place or related to bedclothes) with 'jacket' (a short coat): it denotes a type of jacket associated with the bed. This noun–noun compounding pattern is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun bed jacket comes from a simple picture: a short jacket worn while sitting up in bed. It was used to 'keep warm' or 'cover up' over sleep clothes, so today it means a light short jacket worn over bedclothes.