dressing gown
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dressing gown
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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She is then taken away in her dressing gown.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
The pictures show a pallid, hollow-eyed man, resembling Poe, who’s sitting by the fire in his dressing gown when there comes a gentle “rapping, rapping” at the door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Annie did an interview on her "charity work" with the Aberdeen Evening News, turning up at a hotel in Portree in a striking crimson dressing gown and fingers adorned with jewelled rings.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
"Morning, daughter! Just checking in," Tetiana announces in one video, then swings the camera round to her husband who waves and grins in his dressing gown.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Vernon Dursley, whose mustache was quite as bushy as Dumbledore’s, though black, and who was wearing a puce dressing gown, was staring at the visitor as though he could not believe his tiny eyes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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