Informal woman's dress-like garment worn around the house.
1Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen.
2She had exchanged her tailor-suit for a dainty house-gown.
3At first glance you would think it was nothing more than an ordinary house-gown, but only at first glance.
4She wore a house-gown of white muslin sprigged with violets, and a long Marie Antoinette fichu, pale green and diaphanous.
5It could be seen now that he wore a long house-gown of black silk, skilfully moulded to his erect, shapely, and rounded form.
Translations for house-gown