bathrobe
Americannoun
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bathrobes
plural
noun
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a loose-fitting garment of towelling, for wear before or after a bath or swimming
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a dressing gown
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bathrobe
Explanation
A bathrobe is a loose-fitting robe you put on after a bath or shower. They’re like towels with sleeves and a belt. Fuzzy slippers and curlers are optional. A bathrobe shuttles you between being dressed and undressed. You might wear a bathrobe before or after taking a bath, in a locker room after swimming, or in a fancy spa. Bathrobes generally tie loosely around the waist, and because they're made of toweling, you can put them on when your body is wet. A more lightweight robe you wear over your pajamas can also be called a bathrobe, though it's more commonly called a "housecoat" or a "dressing gown."
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He was wearing blue pajama pants and a bathrobe — sometimes red, other times blue — and carrying a dry-erase whiteboard that he used to “talk” to people walking by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
He looked like a man in his bathrobe who’d come outside to see all the neighborhood confusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
That’s why DiCaprio spends much of the film in a red bathrobe, making him both incredibly hard to miss and also decidedly ordinary-looking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
It features a cosy message - Mandelson branding Epstein his "best pal", and a photograph of the two in which Mandelson is wearing a bathrobe.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
I got the book, the letter paper, the bathrobe.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
In another, Maxwell and magician David Copperfield, both in bathrobes, embrace in front of white columns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
The King and Queen surprised a group of people in bathrobes enjoying a spa day during a visit to Charles's Poundbury eco-village.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
Prada offered puffy, cocoon-like jackets and belted capes resembling bathrobes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Some women who have just given birth sit recovering in their bathrobes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
They said at one point she had hoarded 39 sheets, 42 towels, 93 English muffins—and she was wearing 8 bathrobes.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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