dressing jacket

== English == === Noun === dressing jacket (plural dressing jackets) (historical) A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing. 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, Woodstock & New York: Overlook, Chapter 3, p. 34,[4] Except that her ears did not stick up and that she went about on two legs instead of four, Phoebe Wisdom was extraordinarily like a white rabbit, a resemblance which was heightened at the moment by the white dressing jacket she was wearing and the fact that much weeping had made her nose and eyes pink. ==== Synonyms ==== (woman's jacket): dressing sack, sack