Usage of "house dress"

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

Usage of house dress in английском

But in the house dress she was wearing now, Jessie was wholly feminine. 
 Man-Size 

Outdoors, she wears a long full cloak over her house dress. 
 Book of Etiquette, Volume II 

She had taken off her wraps and now appeared in a neat house dress. 
 Dorian 

We noticed that she wore nothing under her house dress. 
 Men without Women 

She wore a plain brown house dress and looked uniformed and ready for service. 
 The Precipice: A Novel 

A fold of her filmy house dress fluttered near him. 
 Constance Dunlap 

It was some old rental house dress and the sequins were slicing my armpits. 
 News.com.au 

My mother strolled across the room, her navy house dress swishing around her legs. 
 A taste of magic 

Mrs. Pontellier did not wear her usual Tuesday reception gown; she was in ordinary house dress. 
 The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories 

The Queen was wearing a mail-order house dress. 
 The new yorker 

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 

She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other. 
 War and Peace 

Half an hour later she was sitting at her desk quiet and neat in her house dress. 
 Robin 

She put on a house dress and returned to the nursery while Hilda went to make coffee. 
 Flappers and Philosophers 

She was without a hat and wearing a house dress of decorous shades and in the extreme of fashion. 
 The Frame Up 

Then she hurried away to change her best gown for a house dress and put away all the bundles. 
 The Graymouse Family 

Meanings of house dress in английском