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Meanings of house dress in English

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Simple dress worn informally in the mornings at home for household chores or for quick errands.

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Examples for "morning dress"
Examples for "morning dress"
1
On the platform stood his wife the Czarina, in her morning dress.
Historical Miniatures
2
I wore a morning dress, which covered the place I pointed to.
In a glass darkly
3
The afternoon dress of one week becomes the morning dress of the following.
The Complete Home
4
She was lying on it now, in a white morning dress.
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
5
Ingeborg, in her usual morning dress, was seated at the sewing-table.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian
Usage of house dress in English
1
But in the house dress she was wearing now, Jessie was wholly feminine.
Man-Size
2
Outdoors, she wears a long full cloak over her house dress.
Book of Etiquette, Volume II
3
She had taken off her wraps and now appeared in a neat house dress.
Dorian
4
We noticed that she wore nothing under her house dress.
Men without Women
5
She wore a plain brown house dress and looked uniformed and ready for service.
The Precipice: A Novel
6
A fold of her filmy house dress fluttered near him.
Constance Dunlap
7
It was some old rental house dress and the sequins were slicing my armpits.
News.com.au
8
My mother strolled across the room, her navy house dress swishing around her legs.
A taste of magic
9
Mrs. Pontellier did not wear her usual Tuesday reception gown; she was in ordinary house dress.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
10
The Queen was wearing a mail-order house dress.
The new yorker
11
At the moment Prudence was taking down her own starched, blue house dress from the line.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
12
She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other.
War and Peace
13
Half an hour later she was sitting at her desk quiet and neat in her house dress.
Robin
14
She put on a house dress and returned to the nursery while Hilda went to make coffee.
Flappers and Philosophers
15
She was without a hat and wearing a house dress of decorous shades and in the extreme of fashion.
The Frame Up
16
Then she hurried away to change her best gown for a house dress and put away all the bundles.
The Graymouse Family