housecoat

plural housecoats · alternative house-coat

1. CanadaUSA bathrobe or dressing gown.
2. AustraliaA longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.

   Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.

   1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12

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   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.

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 15