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housecoat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From house + coat.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) A bathrobe or dressing gown.
2. (Australia) A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.
   • Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing. 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:
   • They went downstairs in their gay cotton house-coats and found Mrs Dibble in the kitchen, doddering over a lunch that required no preparation, being merely a section of ham sausage and a few pickled onions. 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 15:

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Deriveds

housecoated