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hostess gown

noun

  1. a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hostess gown1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

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And if you find yourself longing for a hostess gown at the end of it, try this One Hundred Stars Atlas Evening Coat.

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That first night I saw her, B. was wearing a fire-engine-red bustier and red hostess gown — and managing to look demure while doing it.

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I watched her reach into the bosom of her taffeta hostess gown and remove a white envelope.

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I watched her reach into the bosom of her taffeta hostess gown and remove a white envelope.

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She was a small, delicately plump woman with raven hair in which a thin streak of white had begun almost imperceptibly to show, and when she reappeared in the rich red of a hostess gown she was so striking that I had to avert my somewhat startled eyes.

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