What is "housedress"

Usage examples of "housedress".

Their hostess was standing there in a pale pink housedress and fuzzy blue slippers.

He yanked on the housedress neckline until her shoulder lay exposed to his rheumy, yellowed gaze.

Raptly, Martha Merriam hunched over the magazine, tugging at her violet-sprigged housedress so that it almost covered her plump knees.

The inevitable farm collie rushed at me in the inevitable way and made all the inevitable noises and threats until a tired-looking woman even more faded than her housedress shushed him and shooed him and then came out, screen door snapping shut behind her, to meet me.

She was wearing a flower-spattered housedress that appeared to date from the 1950s, and a thin metal chain around her neck disappeared beneath the collar.

Her uneasy feeling grew stronger when she pictured the woman in her faded housedress and old metal necklace.

She wore a cream silk housedress, her hair was wet, and she was barefoot.

Gray hair sprang in thinning coils from her scalp, and she wore a flowered housedress with black plastic slip-ons.

Cotton strings from the hairnet straggled down her nape, and she wore a flowered housedress and a full-length flowered apron.

Heln, disheveled hair hanging uncombed, worn housedress askew, eyes puffed almost as though from crying, was far from appetizing.

In housedress and sandals, Desdemona held her cardboard fan to her chest, shielding herself against the spectacle of life repeating itself.

A gray-haired lady in a housedress and floppy sweater stood on the porch of her home as Judd raced by.

The door to the house trailer popped open, and out stepped Emma Anderson, an apron tied around the plain housedress she wore.

She was an old woman in a thin flowered housedress with a long apron covering it.

The cord of her old-fashioned hearing aid curled down into the neck of her housedress where it disappeared.