dressing jacket

noun

Definitions

  1. A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home…

    A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.

    • […] on entering an apartment, [he] found lord Edward lying on a bed, in his dressing jacket.
    • Then we went on to Moggs and found him in a camel-hair dressing-jacket in a luxurious bed, drinking China tea […]
    • A woman came to the door. One breast was bare, and hung over her blouse, which, like a dressing-jacket, fell loose over her skirt.

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