English [ edit ]
A dressing gown .
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
From dressing + gown .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
dressing gown (plural dressing gowns )
( UK , Ireland ) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas .
1891 , Oscar Wilde , chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray , London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co. , →OCLC , page 138 :After about ten minutes he got up, and, throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.
1960 , P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse , “VII AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing , London: Herbert Jenkins , →OCLC :I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the headmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown , to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
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item of clothing
Albanian: robdëshambër m
Arabic: رُوب m ( rōb ) , ثَوْب نَوْم m ( ṯawb nawm ) , رُوب دُو شَامْبْر m ( rōb do šāmbr ) , رِدَاء نَوْم m ( ridāʔ nawm )
Armenian: խալաթ (hy) ( xalatʿ )
Azerbaijani: xələt
Belarusian: хала́т m ( xalát )
Bulgarian: хала́т (bg) m ( halát ) , пеньоа́р (bg) m ( penjoár )
Catalan: batí (ca) m , bata (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 晨衣 (zh) ( chényī )
Czech: župan (cs) m
Danish: morgenkåbe c
Dutch: kamerjas (nl) m
Esperanto: noktosurtuto , negliĝo , ĥalato
Estonian: hommikumantel
Finnish: aamutakki (fi)
French: robe de chambre (fr) f , peignoir (fr) m
Georgian: ხალათი (ka) ( xalati )
German: Morgenrock (de) m , Morgenmantel (de) m , Schlafrock (de) m , Bademantel (de) m
Greek: ρόμπα (el) f ( rómpa )
Ancient: περιβόλαιον n ( peribólaion )
Hungarian: hálóköntös (hu) , köntös (hu) , pongyola (hu)
Irish: fallaing sheomra f
Italian: vestaglia (it) f
Japanese: ガウン (ja) ( gaun ) , 部屋着 ( へやぎ, heyagi ) , バスローブ (ja) ( basurōbu ) ( bathrobe )
Kazakh: халат ( xalat )
Korean: 가운 (ko) ( gaun ) , 실내복(室內服) (ko) ( sillaebok )
Kyrgyz: халат (ky) ( halat )
Latvian: halāts m
Lithuanian: chalatas m
Macedonian: пењоа́р m ( penjoár )
Maltese: libsa tal-banju
Norwegian:
Bokmål: morgenkåpe (no) m or f , slåbrok (no) m
Nynorsk: morgonkåpe f
Ottoman Turkish: مفضل ( mifzal )
Persian: رب دشامبر (fa) ( rob do-šâmbr ) , ربدشامبر (fa) ( rob-do-šâmbr )
Polish: szlafrok (pl) m , podomka (pl) f
Portuguese: roupão (pt) m , robe (pt) m
Romanian: halat (ro) n
Russian: хала́т (ru) m ( xalát ) , пеньюа́р (ru) m ( penʹjuár )
Scottish Gaelic: còta-leapa m
Slovak: župan m
Slovene: jutranja halja f
Spanish: batín m , bata (es) f
Swedish: morgonrock (sv) c
Tajik: хилъат ( xilʾat ) , халат ( xalat ) , ҷомаи хонагӣ ( jomayi xonagī )
Thai: เสื้อคลุม ( sʉ̂ʉa-klum ) , ( bathrobe ) เสื้อคลุมอาบน้ำ ( sʉ̂ʉa-klum-àap-náam )
Turkish: ropdöşambır (tr)
Ukrainian: хала́т m ( xalát )
Uzbek: xalat (uz)
Welsh: gŵn llofft m , gŵn tŷ m