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 for Capri pants that were as fashionable as they were suited to a modern American woman.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 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, 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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