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dressing-gown

dressing-gown is the alternative spelling of dressing gown.

Meaning of dressing gown

Noun

dressing gown (plural dressing gowns)

  1. (Ireland, UK) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.
    • After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 138

Forms of dressing-gown

pluraldressing-gowns

Questions about dressing-gown

What is dressing-gown the alternative spelling of?
Dressing-gown is the alternative spelling of dressing gown.

Words near dressing-gown in the dictionary

  1. dressing-bells
  2. dressing-boy
  3. dressing-boys
  4. dressing-down
  5. dressing-downs
  6. dressing-gown
  7. dressing-gowned
  8. dressing-gowns
  9. dressing-room
  10. dressing-rooms
  11. dressing-table

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