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A housecoat is a long, loose coat you wear at home, often over your clothes or . People put one on in the morning, or when they are cleaning, cooking, or answering the door without getting fully dressed. The point is the house: it is not an outdoor coat, and it is not meant to look smart in the street. It is close to a dressing gown or robe, though a housecoat is often a bit more like a light coat — buttons or a zip down the front, sometimes with pockets — and it was especially a women’s garment in the mid-twentieth century. The word feels a little old-fashioned now. Younger people more often say robe, dressing gown, or just . You may still hear housecoat from older speakers, or see it in shops that sell that style.
家居罩袍、居家袍（穿在家裡擋髒、罩在衣服或睡衣外；不是出門外套）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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housecoatnoun
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A bathrobe or dressing gown.
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A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.
- They went downstairs in their gay cotton house-coats and found Mrs Dibble in the kitchen, doddering over a lunch that required no preparation, being merely a section of ham sausage and a few pickled onions.
- Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.
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