housedress

[ hous-dres ]

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

Origin of housedress

1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; house + dress

Words Nearby housedress

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How to use housedress in a sentence

  • 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.

    Whispering Walls | Mildred A. Wirt
  • The simple little housedress in which he had first seen her had been exchanged for an elaborate afternoon costume.

    Lola | Owen Davis
  • A woman in a faded housedress had just admitted the two officers and the former Fleming butler.

    Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam Piper
  • A short, wrinkled, dark-eyed woman in a print housedress was eying him with deep suspicion.

    Out Like a Light | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • She smoothed her lilac housedress and left the room to descend the stairs to the front door.

    The Trap | Betsy Curtis