bed-jacketed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The character of the bed-jacketed grouch, Sheridan Whiteside, had meantime become identified in the mind of the show-going public with the real Alexander Woollcott."
- "Mrs. Marrable was already propped against her pillows, bed-jacketed and hair-netted, her book open."
- "Her breakfast tray, a great wicker affair sprouting a yellow rose, bridged her knees, while combed, powdered and bed-jacketed, she was nested in little pillows."
- "She waved a bed-jacketed arm in mild amusement, sending out a waft of expensive French perfume."
- "Long after I had announced my lesbian identity in a very public way, I asked my mother how long she had known that I was a lesbian. Initially I was shocked by her answer. Later I thought, “But of course!” She said, “I always knew.” Always? In utero? Did the obstetrical nurse deposit me into my mother’s bed-jacketed arms wrapped in a lavender blanket?"
- "For, in doing so, in remembering that aristocratic, satin-bed-jacketed figure, she remembered also her look of frailty, the very serious heart surgery she had recently undergone—and Sabina was weakened."
Etymology
From bed-jacket + -ed.