housecoat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of housecoat
Example Sentences
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A photo, published on social media, shows the activist in what appears to be a prison housecoat hugging her father.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024
Before I was in high school, when my friends asked why she wore stained dresses or took the bus in her housecoat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
"I only have the TV, the fridge and a lamp," she said, dressed in a flower-patterned housecoat.
From Reuters • Oct. 19, 2022
Embracing a rigorous fidelity to her past, she builds an exact replica of her flat and dresses the male lead in Anthony’s housecoat.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2021
The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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