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housedressed (not comparable)

1. Wearing a housedress.
   • 1915 March, Harper’s Bazaar, volume L, number 3, page 107:

     Be Prettily Housedressed / The Utility Housedress is chic as well as incomparably convenient.

   • 1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40:

     When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet.

   • 1962, Janet Kern, Yesterday’s Child, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, LCCN 62-15199, pages 61–62:

     If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs.

   • 1980, Marion Duckworth, The Greening of Mrs. Duckworth, Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:

     Mother stood helplessly at the edge of teenage, a housedressed figure waiting with after-school bread and jelly.