Housecoat
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A bathrobe or dressing gown. Canada, US
- 2 a loose dressing gown for women wordnet
- 3 A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house. Australia
"They went downstairs in their gay cotton house-coats and found Mrs Dibble in the kitchen, doddering over a lunch that required no preparation, being merely a section of ham sausage and a few pickled onions."
Example
More examples"They went downstairs in their gay cotton house-coats and found Mrs Dibble in the kitchen, doddering over a lunch that required no preparation, being merely a section of ham sausage and a few pickled onions."
Etymology
From house + coat.
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