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(historical) A loose-fitting lightweight garment, usually hip- to thigh-length, generally worn at home while applying makeup, doing one's hair, or relaxing.
1801, Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, from the Arrival of the English, Dublin: John Milliken, page 207:
[…] on entering an apartment, [he] found lord Edward lying on a bed, in his dressing jacket.
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.
