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housecoat

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From house + coat.

noun housecoats · house-coat

  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. 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.

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@misc{housecoat_2026,
  title = {housecoat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/housecoat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}