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dressing jacket

dressing jacket noun: a loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.

dressing jacket: a loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while...
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Noun

dressing jacket (plural dressing jackets)

  1. (historical) A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.
    • […] on entering an apartment, [he] found lord Edward lying on a bed, in his dressing jacket.1801, Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, from the Arrival of the English, Dublin: John Milliken, page 207
    • Then we went on to Moggs and found him in a camel-hair dressing-jacket in a luxurious bed, drinking China tea […]1908, H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, Toronto: Macmillan, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 247
    Synonyms:
    dressing sack, sack

Synonyms of dressing jacket

Forms of dressing jacket

pluraldressing jackets

Questions about dressing jacket

What does dressing jacket mean?
Dressing jacket means a loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.
What part of speech is dressing jacket?
Dressing jacket is a noun.
What is the plural of dressing jacket?
The plural of dressing jacket is dressing jackets.

Words near dressing jacket in the dictionary

  1. dressing down
  2. dressing downs
  3. dressing forceps
  4. dressing gown
  5. dressing gowns
  6. dressing jacket
  7. dressing jackets
  8. dressing mirror
  9. dressing mirrors
  10. dressing off
  11. dressing out

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