housedressed
housedressed adjective: wearing a housedress.
Adjective
housedressed (not comparable)
- Wearing a housedress.
- Be Prettily Housedressed / The Utility Housedress is chic as well as incomparably convenient.1915 March, Harper’s Bazaar, volume L, number 3, page 107
- When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet.1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40
Examples of housedressed in a sentence
- If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs.1962, Janet Kern, Yesterday’s Child, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, pages 61–62:
- Mother stood helplessly at the edge of teenage, a housedressed figure waiting with after-school bread and jelly.1980, Marion Duckworth, The Greening of Mrs. Duckworth, Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
Origin of housedressed
From housedress + -ed.
Questions about housedressed
- What does housedressed mean?
- Housedressed means wearing a housedress.
- How do you use housedressed in a sentence?
- If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs.
- What part of speech is housedressed?
- Housedressed is an adjective.
Words near housedressed in the dictionary
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