dayrobe

plural dayrobes

1. uncommonA robe to be worn in the daytime.

   Just that burned-out woman wrapped primly in her dayrobe and the sound of her voice—[…]

   1981, Jonathan Valin, chapter 24, in Dead Letter, Dodd, Mead & Company, →ISBN, page 217

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   Cambric edging to adorn thy dayrobes & the prettiest little brush & comb for thy silken hair that were ever seen.

   1843 December 23 (date written), Sophia Hawthorne, “A Sophia Hawthorne Journal, 1843-1844”, in John J. McDonald, editor, compiled by C. E. Frazer Clark Jr., The Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 1974, Microcard Editions Books, published 1975, →ISBN, page 15

   Surely true. This intricate, so-personal net of the Castle annoyed him, but he saw no way to break out of it. They lay down together, she in her negligee, he in his dayrobe, with his sword on.

   1986 October 29, Piers Anthony, “Princess” (chapter 3), in Wielding a Red Sword, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 40

   He stood up and pulled on a dayrobe that glinted with silver-threaded embroidery around the hem and neckband.

   1987 January 29, Catherine Cooke, chapter 14, in Veil of Shadow, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 187