daydress

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English

Etymology

From day +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

Noun

daydress (plural daydresses)

  1. A garment designed to be worn during the day, usually by women.
    • 1900, Margaret Horton Potter, “Royal Visitors at Bristol” (chapter XXII), in Uncanonized, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., page 405:
      Doffing her daydress, she flung about her a loose gown of white wool, heavy with embroidery.
    • 1970 [1941], Helen Macinnes, “Frau Köppler Recommends” (chapter X), in Above Suspicion, Fontana Books, page 89:
      She still wore the long-skirted black daydress which seemed to be part of her.
    • 1983, Karen Robards, chapter 22, in Forbidden Love, Book Margins, Inc., page 371:
      “I’m sorry,” Megan answered, pulling a single white petticoat over her head and then doing the same to a simple cambric daydress of palest lemon.

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