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housedress

American  
[hous-dres] / ˈhaʊsˌdrɛs /

noun

  1. a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.


Etymology

Origin of housedress

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

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

While she snips chili peppers in her turquoise housedress, her daughters are downstairs watching “I Am Cait.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2016

She still had sponge curlers in the front of her hair and when she neared, I could see that her housedress was actually a bathrobe.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English