housedressed

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adjective

Wearing a housedress.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivehousedressed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWearing a housedress.

    Be Prettily Housedressed / The Utility Housedress is chic as well as incomparably convenient.

    1915 March, Harper’s Bazaar, volume L, number 3, page 107
    3 more examples

    When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet.

    1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40

    If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs.

    1962, Janet Kern, Yesterday’s Child, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, pages 61–62

    Mother stood helplessly at the edge of teenage, a housedressed figure waiting with after-school bread and jelly.

    1980, Marion Duckworth, The Greening of Mrs. Duckworth, Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 16

Origin

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