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Answer for the clue "A loose-fitting robe of towelling ", 8 letters:
bathrobe

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bathrobe , dressing gown , morning gown or housecoat is a robe . A bathrobe is usually made from towelling or other absorbent textile, and may be donned while the wearer's body is wet, serving both as a towel and an informal garment . A dressing gown ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1894, from bath (n.) + robe (n.).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB wear ▪ He was unshaven and wearing a shabby towelling bathrobe with threads hanging off it. ▪ I picture people from San Jose to San Rafael trying to decide whether to wear sweats, a bathrobe or jeans tomorrow. ▪ Meir ...

Usage examples of bathrobe.

Just then Alf Brummel himself came into the building, fresh out of bed and in his bathrobe.

In their bathrobes, with uncombed hair, all of them wrong sizes and shapes and colors, with goiters and harelips and missing limbs and extra limbs.

This was more temper than Luba had shown when William threw up on her cashmere bathrobe.

In the halls, they encountered other curious passengers, like themselves, people in nightgowns and fur coats, still in white tie and ballgowns, or bathrobes and bare legs.

The neighbors, wearing bathrobes and slippers, crowd the hallway of the slummy tenement.

I stash the condoms in my bathrobe pocket and look down at the miniature marshmallows melting.

In her purple chenille bathrobe and green hair curlers, she reminded Emily of some weird eggplant experiment gone awry.

She was dressed in a polka dot bathrobe and had some kind of fuzzy leopardskin slippers on her feet.

She wore a faded flannel bathrobe, a crumpled flower of pink Kleenex bursting from the monogrammed breastpocket.

She ruffed the collar of her bathrobe around her throat as Lily, who had been outside feeding the nuthatches, admitted a funnel of frigid air.

My sundresses hung from the bar, along with some very lightweight bathrobes and nightgowns.

He had been in another room of his home, telephoning, and had just returned to Nim, who was in the living room, wearing a borrowed bathrobe, his left hand bandaged, the right nursing a stiff scotch and water.

She appropriated a terrycloth bathrobe hanging on The back of the bathroom door and went back to sit on the edge of the bed, where she stared through the sheer curtains covering the window.

Tot was in her aqua chenille bathrobe with the pink flamingo on the back, and as Mrs.

Mary Catherine went back to her room, changed out of her daughter costume, put on a bathrobe, and walked downstairs.