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housecoat

'hauskәut3 senses · 340 ms
Level C2
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noun
  1. 1

    A bathrobe or dressing gown.CanadaUS

  2. 2

    A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.Australia

    • 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.
    • Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.

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