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noun
A bathrobe or dressing gown.
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.