dressing gown
Americannoun
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dressing gowns
plural
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
Kirsty Hopley, 44, from Carlisle, said she was searching the app for a dressing gown when the ad popped up.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after Mr Brown's body was discovered under a dressing gown in the living room of the home they shared.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Suddenly the blind old woman in her rickrack dressing gown and with her thin gray hair plaited into a rat’s tail stepped forward and pushed Vellya Paapen with all her strength.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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