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dressing jackets

dressing jackets is the plural of dressing jacket.

Meaning of dressing jacket

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
    Synonyms:
    dressing sack, sack

Questions about dressing jackets

What is dressing jackets the plural of?
Dressing jackets is the plural of dressing jacket.

Words near dressing jackets in the dictionary

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

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