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
But also here is Hanson’s hefty, exultantly banal “Housewife,” slouching in her housecoat among cigarette stubs and magazines.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
My grandmother is wearing a purple velour housecoat that clashes with the orange-and-green wallpaper in the kitchen.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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
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
I kept company with three elderly Portuguese women, all in housecoats, scarves covering their hair, saying their devotions aloud.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2012
"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 unpacked the trunk — some housecoats, a framed portrait of her father, sewing supplies, and an assortment of fabrics — and arranged her things on a few empty shelves.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
