housedress

[ hous-dres ]

/ ˈhaʊsˌdrɛs /

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noun

a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.

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Origin of housedress

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; house + dress

Words nearby housedress

house cricket, house crow, house detective, house dick, “House Divided” speech, housedress, housed string, house factor, housefather, house finch, house flag

How to use housedress in a sentence

She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner.
What Lee Harvey Oswald’s Mother Told Me|Lloyd Grove|November 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now she looked very plain and frowsy in a messy housedress, and her hair hung in untidy streamers.
Whispering Walls|Mildred A. Wirt
The simple little housedress in which he had first seen her had been exchanged for an elaborate afternoon costume.
Lola|Owen Davis
A woman in a faded housedress had just admitted the two officers and the former Fleming butler.
Murder in the Gunroom|Henry Beam Piper

A short, wrinkled, dark-eyed woman in a print housedress was eying him with deep suspicion.
Out Like a Light|Gordon Randall Garrett
She smoothed her lilac housedress and left the room to descend the stairs to the front door.
The Trap|Betsy Curtis