DRESSING GOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dressing gown mean? 

• DRESSING GOWN (noun)
  The noun DRESSING GOWN has 1 sense:

1. a robe worn before dressing or while lounging

  Familiarity information: DRESSING GOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRESSING GOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A robe worn before dressing or while lounging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dressing gown; lounging robe; robe-de-chambre

Hypernyms ("dressing gown" is a kind of...):

robe (any loose flowing garment)

 Context examples 

The man ran off, and within a few minutes the Professor, in his dressing gown and slippers, appeared.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her sister was perhaps laid down upon the bed, or in her dressing gown, and therefore not able to come to them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In ran Mrs. Bennet to her daughter's room, in her dressing gown, and with her hair half finished, crying out: My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was nothing he didn't offer, from his own dressing gown to himself as escort.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darning needle in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her to come in and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay down beside me; she did not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while and then go back to her own bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But by-and-by, when the teething worry was over and the idols went to sleep at proper hours, leaving Mamma time to rest, she began to miss John, and find her workbasket dull company, when he was not sitting opposite in his old dressing gown, comfortably scorching his slippers on the fender.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I declare, it really seems like being a fine young lady, to come home from the party in a carriage and sit in my dressing gown with a maid to wait on me, said Meg, as Jo bound up her foot with arnica and brushed her hair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)