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housecoat
noun
house·coat
ˈhau̇s-ˌkōt
: a woman's often long-skirted informal garment for wear around the house
Examples of housecoat in a Sentence
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Genetic genealogists knew that Lees was discovered wearing a floral dress or housecoat, with medium-length gray hair showing hints of blond.
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Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
Jolie looks incredible in the film, all angular cheekbones and brocade housecoats, divine in a cat flick eye and beehive in black-and-white flashbacks to her romance with Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer).
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Rihanna isn’t the first to have tried to turn a housecoat into something more haute couture.
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Leah Dolan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
Krugman also left out one of his wife’s housecoats, thinking her scent might bring Riley back.
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Cathy Free, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
Since the boy’s diaper had fallen off, Jones retrieved her housecoat and wrapped him in it.
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Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
Seyrig, who is regal and tinted with glamour even when clad in a seafoam-green housecoat, has an amazingly expressive and open face, conveying mysterious depths of emotion and experience in ostensible repose.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Lee was reportedly last seen July 8 around 5:58 a.m. wearing a silver robe or housecoat, gold cap and gray slippers leaving Campus Walk Apartments.
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Justin Gamble and Camila Moreno-Lizarazo, CNN, 14 July 2022
Jay Lee, 20, was last seen on July 8 at about around 5:58 a.m. leaving Campus Walk Apartments wearing a silver robe or housecoat, gold cap and gray slippers.
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Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1913, in the meaning defined above
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“Housecoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housecoat. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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housecoat
noun
house·coat
ˈhau̇-ˌskōt
: a woman's loose and often long garment for wear around the house
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