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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bathrobe
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 Ahronson, wearing a bathrobe and a pair of run-down slippers, opened the door.
▪ Edusha ate her breakfast still wearing her bathrobe and her slippers.
▪ Brenda wore a bathrobe belonging to her sister.
▪ She was wearing a bathrobe and slippers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An immediate bathrobe after her bath.
▪ Folly reached for the towelling bathrobe that hung behind the door, and made her way out into the corridor.
▪ He twisted a bathrobe belt around her neck and forced her on to a bed before raping her twice in July 1991.
▪ Later, David pulled on Clare's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen.
▪ Recently, there has been a move towards customised self-liquidating premiums, an example being luxury bathrobes bearing the company logo.
▪ She hung her bathrobe on its hook near the door, aligned her slippers at the foot of the bed.
▪ The bathrobe did not do the trick.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bathrobe

1894, from bath (n.) + robe (n.).

Wiktionary
bathrobe

n. A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to fully dress.

WordNet
bathrobe

n. a loose-fitting robe of towelling; worn after a bath or swim

Wikipedia
Bathrobe

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 or a housecoat is a loose, open-fronted gown closed with a fabric belt that is put on over nightwear on rising from bed, or, less commonly today, worn over some day clothes when partially dressed or undressed in the morning or evening (for example, over a man's shirt and trousers without jacket and tie). The regular wearing of a dressing gown by men about the house is derived from the 18th-century wearing of the banyan in orientalist imitation. The Japanese yukata is an unlined, cotton kimono worn as a bathrobe or as summer outdoor clothing. Several styles of bathrobes are marketed to consumers, categorized by textile material and type of weave.

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.