housecoat
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Why has the S5 answered the door wearing this shapeless housecoat?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
The kitchen door had opened, and there stood Harry’s aunt, wearing rubber gloves and a housecoat over her nightdress, clearly halfway through her usual pre-bedtime wipe-down of all the kitchen surfaces.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
And still I sit at this desk laying my words like jigsaw pieces, a fellow with ladies in housecoats and old men in slippers who watch TV.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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