"tea-gown" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1893, Arthur Moore, A Comedy of Masks, page 309",
          "text": "Eve crushed in a corner, a sorrowful, dainty shape in the silk and lace of her pretty tea-gown, with the white drawn face of a scared child […]",
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          "ref": "1868, Edwin Waugh, Dules-gate; or, a Frisk through Lancashire Clough, page 4",
          "text": "Across the white silken draperies of her tea-gown her two little hands are loosely locked together amongst the laces that adorn it, and from beneath its lowermost frill I can just see the point of a tiny satin slipper.",
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          "ref": "1923, Country Life, volume 54, page 164",
          "text": "There is probably no form of gown more replete with interest to the artistic designer, nor one that lends itself to greater individuality of expression, than the tea-gown.",
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          "ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 269",
          "text": "'[H]er luggage contained only a chiffon negligée so elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing-gown.'",
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        "A loose-fitting semiformal gown, made of light fabrics, worn in the late 19th and early 20th century for entertaining, especially for afternoon tea."
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          "word": "tea gown"
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