morning dress
- noun
- Archaic
:
vestido de casa
- She changed into a morning dress before beginning her household chores.
Examples
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Her simple cotton morning dress was both comfortable and practical for daily tasks.
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My grandmother always put on her morning dress early in the day.
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Floral patterns were very popular for a morning dress in the early 20th century.
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She wore a lovely morning dress while preparing breakfast.
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Her simple cotton morning dress was both comfortable and practical for daily tasks.
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She changed into a morning dress before beginning her household chores.
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My grandmother always put on her morning dress early in the day.
Synonyms
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A simple comfortable dress women wear at home for chores
A loose, comfortable garment women wore at home in the past
Antonyms
How Practical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'morning' (time of day) + 'dress' (clothing), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer it refers to clothing worn in the morning. This noun+noun construction is a common, literal pattern across languages and therefore highly transparent despite occasional register-specific or historical senses.
Etymology
Morning dress for women was a simple dress worn at home in the early part of the day for chores and light work, because people would change into an easy outfit in the morning. So the term came to mean a woman's informal house dress worn in the morning.