From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdressing gownˈdressing gown ●●○ noun [countable] British English, American English formal DCCa piece of clothing like a long loose coat that you wear inside the house, usually over night clothes SYN bathrobe, robe
Examples from the Corpus
dressing gown• Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown, and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast.• Cornelius tucked this, unopened, into a dressing gown pocket.• Reluctantly she got up and her teeth chattered as she took a dressing gown from a hook behind the bedroom door.• He got out of bed and put on his faded burgundy dressing gown.• She swung her legs out of bed and reached for her dressing gown.• The woman was wearing a man's tartan dressing gown. 