What is "housecoats"

Usage examples of "housecoats".

He went to work in his Uncle Benjy's dress factory for sixteen dollars a week, and there he sat at the end of a long table where twelve French-Canadian girls, wearing flowered housecoats over their dresses, sewed belts in the heat and dust.

She had started their relationship wearing ratty housecoats, but had quickly learned how he liked to be greeted—by an actual woman, not a housekeeper.

Women wear all sorts of garments when they want to be comfortable -- magnificently cut housecoats, kimonos, flannel dressing gowns, and even old bathrobes which their husbands have discarded as unfit for further service -- but they never wear those tight-fitting things with lace skirts split up the front, for the good reason that it is impossible to sit down in one, much less perform any of the feats appropriate to negligees.

She who had come to the breakfast table at eight o'clock fully dressed for the day, whose immaculate, unwrinkled housecoats at home in the evening had always matched her slippers, whose modesty about her body—well, the less about her modesty, the better—had had to lie like that!