housecoat

See also: house-coat

English

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Etymology

From house +‎ coat.

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Noun

housecoat (plural housecoats)

  1. (Canada, US) A bathrobe or dressing gown.
  2. (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.

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