Meaning of dressing jacket | Babel Free

Definitions

A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.

historical

Examples

“[…] on entering an apartment, [he] found lord Edward lying on a bed, in his dressing jacket.”

“Then we went on to Moggs and found him in a camel-hair dressing-jacket in a luxurious bed, drinking China tea […]”

“A woman came to the door. One breast was bare, and hung over her blouse, which, like a dressing-jacket, fell loose over her skirt.”

“1958, P. G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, Woodstock & New York: Overlook, Chapter 3, p. 34, Except that her ears did not stick up and that she went about on two legs instead of four, Phoebe Wisdom was extraordinarily like a white rabbit, a resemblance which was heightened at the moment by the white dressing jacket she was wearing and the fact that much weeping had made her nose and eyes pink.”

CEFR level