housedress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of housedress
Example Sentences
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After losing Alma, Beth sleeps with the housedress for comfort.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2021
The type who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her oldest Terylene housedress.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017
As Laura, she traded in the housedress of countless sitcom wives and clad her dancer’s legs in Capri pants that were as fashionable as they were suited to a modern American woman.
From Washington Times • Jan. 25, 2017
Park ranger Carrie Todd, costumed in a 1930s housedress and bib apron, sits on the narrow back porch.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2015
She, who was always in a wrapper or a housedress in the garden.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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