housecoat

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She was wearing a housecoat, a brassiere and panties underneath Take off your clothes Rhoda unbuttoned the housecoat and slipped it off.

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  • At the house next to Ida Blanford's, a woman in a housecoat was shaking a dustmop into the breeze while her dog ran sniffing around the front yard. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
  • A heavyset woman in a housecoat, her hair in big pink curlers, stood in a side yard with a patrolman. —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • “Over there.” The door came open a little more and now Kate could see both hands and half her body, which was dressed in a faded garment that in the Eisenhower era would have been called a housecoat. —  The Art of Detection
  • Lona Day in a long black velvet housecoat, with her auburn hair taken loosely back off her forehead, bore a quite undeniable resemblance to the portraits of Mary Queen of Scots. —  Pilgrim’s Rest - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 10: 1946
  • He wasn't doing you any harm The executive turned uncomfortably penetrating eyes on her and she was conscious of her crumpled housecoat, lack of make-up and tumbled, shoulder-length hair. —  Analog October 1971
 

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