daydress

plural daydresses

1. A garment designed to be worn during the day, usually by women.

   She still wore the long-skirted black daydress which seemed to be part of her.

   1970 [1941], Helen MacInnes, “Frau Köppler Recommends” (chapter X), in Above Suspicion, Fontana Books, page 89

   2 more examples

   Doffing her daydress, she flung about her a loose gown of white wool, heavy with embroidery.

   1900, Margaret Horton Potter, “Royal Visitors at Bristol” (chapter XXII), in Uncanonized, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., page 405

   “I’m sorry,” Megan answered, pulling a single white petticoat over her head and then doing the same to a simple cambric daydress of palest lemon.

   1983, Karen Robards, chapter 22, in Forbidden Love, Book Margins, Inc., page 371