housedress
a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.
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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. WirtThe simple little housedress in which he had first seen her had been exchanged for an elaborate afternoon costume.
Lola | Owen DavisA woman in a faded housedress had just admitted the two officers and the former Fleming butler.
Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam PiperA 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
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