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housecoats

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She and a friend now film skits for social media: they dress up as elderly women, in headscarves and housecoats, contorting their faces and cackling into the camera.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2023

Some of the old women in their flowery housecoats, scarves knotted tightly under their chins, pushed free sweets on us, giggling and laughing, throwing their eyes to heaven.

From The Guardian Jul. 22, 2017

I kept company with three elderly Portuguese women, all in housecoats, scarves covering their hair, saying their devotions aloud.

From New York Times May 25, 2012

"People will come in either housecoats or ball gowns," says the hotel's catering manager, Cindy Azmier, who expects 100 guests.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2011

And still I sit at this desk laying my words like jigsaw pieces, a fellow with ladies in housecoats and old men in slippers who watch TV.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez