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housedressed en · ADJ

Etymology

From housedress + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing a housedress.
    • Mother stood helplessly at the edge of teenage, a housedressed figure waiting with after-school bread and jelly. 1980, Marion Duckworth, The Greening of Mrs. Duckworth, Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
    • If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs. 1962, Janet Kern, Yesterday’s Child, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, pages 61–62:
    • When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet. 1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40:
    • Be Prettily Housedressed / The Utility Housedress is chic as well as incomparably convenient. 1915 March, Harper’s Bazaar, volume L, number 3, page 107: