dressing gown

1. 1.

   a robe worn before dressing or while lounging

   Synonymsrobe-de-chambrelounging robe

   Broaderrobe

Questions about dressing gown

What does dressing gown mean?

dressing gown means "a robe worn before dressing or while lounging".

What is another word for dressing gown?

Close synonyms include robe-de-chambre, lounging robe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dressing gown a common word?

dressing gown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.