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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A simple washable dress worn for housework.

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  1. n. A simple dress suitable for housework

Examples

  • “This would be such a great 'housedress' for me to clean in and those pockets would be great to aid in that endeavor.”

    Sale! - A Dress A Day

  • “That's a pretty glamorous "housedress" in my opinion.”

    Zip right up - A Dress A Day

  • “Maybe the front placement of the zipper dictates that it live in the "housedress" category versus the "day dress" category.”

    Zip right up - A Dress A Day

  • “Billie was in a rumpled blue and green plaid housedress, her thick white hair tumbling around her face.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

  • “She'd be a teacher, I'd be married, my grandfather dead, my grandmother still in the kitchen in her worn housedress.”

    Fictionaut: Christmas: 1972

  • “Antonia stood all of maybe five feet, her back rounded and stooped, her knees gnarled like an old tree trunk beneath her flowered housedress.”

    Fictionaut: Turista

  • “I don't mean to make excuses for my own pitiful performance, but I had a housedress handicap ...”

    concours - French Word-A-Day

  • “The heavy maroon metal door creaked open, and I faced the enemy: a tiny old lady about five feet tall, wearing a faded blue cotton housedress.”

    Simon & Schuster: Day of Honey

  • “Presently, an extremely large, pale woman in a housedress burst into the room.”

    Fictionaut: Alteration

  • “Grandmother took a wrinkled, white handkerchief from the pocket of her blue and grey, flowered housedress.”

    Fictionaut: Invisible Child

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