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house-coat

house-coat is the alternative spelling of housecoat.

Meaning of housecoat

Noun

housecoat (plural housecoats)

  1. (Canada, US) A bathrobe or dressing gown.
  2. (Australia) 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.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 15

Forms of house-coat

pluralhouse-coats

Questions about house-coat

What is house-coat the alternative spelling of?
House-coat is the alternative spelling of housecoat.

Words near house-coat in the dictionary

  1. house-breaker
  2. house-breakers
  3. house-broken
  4. house-call
  5. house-calls
  6. house-coat
  7. house-coats
  8. house-commune
  9. house-communes
  10. house-detective
  11. house-detectives

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