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housedress

[ hous-dres ]

noun

  1. a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of housedress1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; house + dress

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Example Sentences

She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner.

Now she looked very plain and frowsy in a messy housedress, and her hair hung in untidy streamers.

The simple little housedress in which he had first seen her had been exchanged for an elaborate afternoon costume.

A woman in a faded housedress had just admitted the two officers and the former Fleming butler.

A short, wrinkled, dark-eyed woman in a print housedress was eying him with deep suspicion.

She smoothed her lilac housedress and left the room to descend the stairs to the front door.

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