dressing gown

Definitions

An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.

Ireland, UK

Equivalents

Examples

“After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.”

“I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak⟳ down to [the headmaster]'s study⟳ at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap⟳ beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find⟳ him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like⟳ Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give⟳ her a violin, and she could have⟳ walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.”

CEFR level