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housecoat

housecoat noun: a bathrobe or dressing gown.

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
    • Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12

housecoat meaning in Tamil

housecoat in Tamil

தளருடை

Forms of housecoat

pluralhousecoats
alternative formhouse-coat

Origin of housecoat

From house + coat.

Words formed from housecoat

Questions about housecoat

What does housecoat mean?
Housecoat means a bathrobe or dressing gown.
What is housecoat in Tamil?
Housecoat in Tamil is தளருடை. See Housecoat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is housecoat?
Housecoat is a noun.
What is the plural of housecoat?
The plural of housecoat is housecoats.

Words near housecoat in the dictionary

  1. housecleaning
  2. housecleanings
  3. housecleans
  4. housecloth
  5. housecloths
  6. housecoat
  7. housecoated
  8. housecoats
  9. housecommune
  10. housecommunes
  11. housecraft

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housecoat (page history and authors); housecoat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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