Meanings
- 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 1073 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 40If 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 61–62Mother 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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