dressing jacket

plural dressing jackets

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

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

   1801, Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, from the Arrival of the English, Dublin: John Milliken, page 207

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

   1908, H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Toronto: Macmillan, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 247

   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.

   1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, Part 1, Chapter 6

   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.

   Synonyms: dressing sack, sack