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dressing gown

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Adressing gown.

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Fromdressing +‎gown.

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dressinggown (pluraldressing gowns)

  1. (UK, Ireland) Anitem ofclothing often made fromcotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long openrobe with abelt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn overpyjamas.
    • 1891,Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, inThe Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.:Ward Lock & Co.,→OCLC,page138:
      After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaboratedressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.
    • 1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII AND XX”, inJeeves in the Offing, London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:
      I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the headmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and adressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap adressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

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item of clothing
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