housecoat
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A photo, published on social media, shows the activist in what appears to be a prison housecoat hugging her father.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
Before I was in high school, when my friends asked why she wore stained dresses or took the bus in her housecoat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
"I only have the TV, the fridge and a lamp," she said, dressed in a flower-patterned housecoat.
From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2022
Embracing a rigorous fidelity to her past, she builds an exact replica of her flat and dresses the male lead in Anthony’s housecoat.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
When Sula came near she disintegrated into white dust, which Sula was hurriedly trying to stuff into the pockets of her blue-flannel housecoat.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
She and a friend now film skits for social media: they dress up as elderly women, in headscarves and housecoats, contorting their faces and cackling into the camera.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2023
She chatters incessantly, parroting advice from women’s magazines: Her prairie dresses and housecoats are color-coordinated with her apartment; her dinner-party menu involves pigs in a blanket and spray cheese.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2020
Some of the old women in their flowery housecoats, scarves knotted tightly under their chins, pushed free sweets on us, giggling and laughing, throwing their eyes to heaven.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2017
"People will come in either housecoats or ball gowns," says the hotel's catering manager, Cindy Azmier, who expects 100 guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2011
She used to wear housecoats, but about a month ago she began wearing ankara- and kente-print dresses in dramatic color combinations.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
