bathrobe
[bath-rohb, bahth-]
- a long, loose, coat-like garment, often tied with a belt of the same material, worn before and after a bath, over sleepwear, or as leisure wear at home.
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Origin of bathrobe
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Examples from the Web for bathrobe
Contemporary Examples
Why does Don sit out in the cold at the end of the episode—alone on his balcony in his bathrobe?
Jon Hamm on the Final Season of ‘Mad Men’ and the Advice He Got From Bryan Cranston and Tina FeyAndrew Romano
April 14, 2014
His little dogs greeted him, yapping and licking, climbing up the front of his bathrobe.
Take a picture hugging a guest while wearing his or her bathrobe?
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event PlannersNina Strochlic
December 16, 2013
A middle-aged man in his bathrobe shakes his fist at the rising sun.
Twenty minutes later, when Zanzi returned, Travolta was alone and wearing a bathrobe.
Historical Examples
He wrapped his bathrobe carefully about him and opened the door.
Philo Gubb Correspondence-School DetectiveEllis Parker Butler
John dropped his bathrobe from his shoulders and went forward.
Spring StreetJames H. Richardson
Then I trailed out in a bathrobe and slippers and lugged him in.
Torchy As A PaSewell Ford
"I threw a bathrobe over my grip in the first place," said Nan.
Nan Sherwood at Palm BeachAnnie Roe Carr
He flew into the hall where he had left his medicine-case, and Peter ran for a bathrobe.
The White MiceRichard Harding Davis
bathrobe
- a loose-fitting garment of towelling, for wear before or after a bath or swimming
- US and Canadian a dressing gown
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Word Origin and History for bathrobe
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