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What is "dressing gown"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dressing gown
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cornelius tucked this, unopened, into a dressing gown pocket.
▪ He got out of bed and put on his faded burgundy dressing gown.
▪ Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown, and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast.
▪ Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door.
▪ She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her dressing gown.
▪ The woman was wearing a man's tartan dressing gown.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dressing gown

Dressing \Dress"ing\, n.

  1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
    --B. Jonson.

  2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
    --Wiseman.

  3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

  4. (Cookery)

    1. A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

    2. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

  5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

  6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

  7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]

    Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.

    Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.

    Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.

    Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.

    Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.

Wiktionary
dressing gown

n. (context UK English) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.

WordNet
dressing gown

n. a robe worn before dressing or while lounging [syn: robe-de-chambre, lounging robe]

Usage examples of "dressing gown".

He was lying in a squirrel-fur dressing gown on a divan, surrounded by pillows.

When he stood naked in front of her, she pulled her dressing gown more closely about her and sat up.

Then he came into the room in his foulard dressing gown and pajamas.

She was now in her dressing gown and had lit the little coal-oil stove to start breakfast.

With a swift flexing of long muscles, he removed himself from the bed, turning from her as he pulled his dressing gown back into place and fastened it.

He rose and threw off the dressing gown, leaving it flung carelessly over the back of his armchair.

Garbed in a pale dressing gown that floated out behind her, candle in hand, Augusta was heading for the long picture gallery that fronted the house.