matinée coat

noun

1. a short coat for a baby

Example Sentences

One after the other, we stumble across them in her prose; the perfect object, perfectly recalled: "a baby's matinee coat with picot edging", "a linen napkin in a bone ring", a dressing gown that is "fawn and hairy", a chop with "a plump red kidney attached", a bunch of altar chrysanthemums that had "a sad smell of clay".

From The Guardian