bathrobe
a long, loose, coat-like garment, often tied with a belt of the same material, worn before and after a bath, over sleepwear, or as leisure wear at home.
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How to use bathrobe in a sentence
It meant that you could dash out in your bathrobe and grab the paper without being seen.
Miss Manners: Newspaper rule still applies, even in digital age | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | May 31, 2021 | Washington PostAnna drifts from room to room in a sweeping, dark-pink bathrobe, like a wan Victorian heroine who has time-travel-shopped from the Garnet Hill catalog.
The Woman in the Window Is an Effective Agoraphobia Thriller with a Chilly Uptown Sheen | Stephanie Zacharek | May 13, 2021 | TimeI can wear the Røthe for various Zoom meetings and online work appearances, and no one on the other side of the screen has any idea that my jacket is actually the length of a bathrobe—and just as comfortable.
Kari Traa’s Røthe Long Hoodie Is Better Than a Robe | Kelly Bastone | April 4, 2021 | Outside OnlineIt can also double as a storage rack for other items, like towels or bathrobes.
Best shoe rack: Behold these versatile shoe storage options | PopSci Commerce Team | March 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMaira Kalman greets me in her Manhattan apartment wearing a white, waffle-knit bathrobe.
Why does Don sit out in the cold at the end of the episode—alone on his balcony in his bathrobe?
Jon Hamm on the Final Season of ‘Mad Men’ and the Advice He Got From Bryan Cranston and Tina Fey | Andrew Romano | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis little dogs greeted him, yapping and licking, climbing up the front of his bathrobe.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTake a picture hugging a guest while wearing his or her bathrobe?
A Most Illegal Adventure with New York City’s Wildest Underground Event Planners | Nina Strochlic | December 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA middle-aged man in his bathrobe shakes his fist at the rising sun.
In pajamas and bathrobe, I stalked down the stairs and into the room that had once been a kitchen and now was Greco's laboratory.
A Feast of Demons | William MorrisonShe was wearing a blue bathrobe several sizes too large for her, instead of the poncho things the slaves in the hallway wore.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperShe was muffled to the ears in a heavy bathrobe, so shapeless and opaque that its big sleeves hid her very hands.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesThe divan would have honored a palace, and Willie's pajamas were of silk, and his bathrobe was of brocaded silk.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesIm getting into my bathrobe the quickest I can, and Doris kicked a shoe under the bed.
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British Dictionary definitions for bathrobe
/ (ˈbɑːθˌrəʊb) /
a loose-fitting garment of towelling, for wear before or after a bath or swimming
US and Canadian a dressing gown
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