housecoat
See also: house-coat
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[edit]housecoat (plural housecoats)
- (Canada, US) A bathrobe or dressing gown.
- (Australia) A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.
- 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 15:
- 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.
- 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:
- Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.