housedress
2
3.0
- noun
- /ˈhaʊsˌdrɛs/
- Archaic
:
vestido de casa
- After a long day of chores, she relaxed at home in her comfortable housedress.
- wear a housedress
- cotton housedress
- flowered housedress
Examples
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The corner of her housedress brushes her right leg.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ursula had on a housedress printed with pieces of cherry pie and curlers in her hair.
Fiction book (2002) -
In half a minute, a woman in a thin cotton housedress came out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her housedress looked like it had been made from a faded window curtain.
Fiction book (1991) -
The woman was wearing a clean housedress with short sleeves that showed her strong but not plump arms.
Fiction book (1991) -
My mother, especially pert in one of her striped housedresses and only a short jacket.
Fiction book (1993) -
Mother, her face shiny and innocent, is in a billowing red-checked housedress; she wears bedroom slippers.
Fiction book (1992) -
The manager of Bermuda Run was a middle-aged, overweight woman in a green flowered housedress with Kool 100s sticking out of the pocket.
Fiction book (2000) -
Women wearing cable-knit cardigans over thin housedresses crowded the hall with their talk, their large purses, and imposing bosoms.
Fiction book (1991) -
She wore a colorful housedress as she prepared dinner in the kitchen.
Synonyms
A loose, comfortable garment women wore at home in the past
A simple dress a woman wears at home for morning housework
How Casual
1
3.2
- Archaic
2
3.0
9
2.5
- Archaic
11
3.3
7
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Housedress comes from the two simple words house ('home') and dress, and it names a plain, comfortable dress worn for chores or relaxing at home, so a housedress is a dress you wear around the house.