Meaning of Housecoat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bathrobe or dressing gown.
   Canada, US
2. A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.
   Australia

Equivalents

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.”

“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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