bathrobe
noun (a bathrobe, bathrobes)
Everyday
- A long, loose coat made of soft towelling or cotton, worn before or after a bath or shower. tree →
- (US) Any dressing gown worn around the house. tree →
In the lessons
An everyday home word: people wear a bathrobe in the morning, at swimming pools and in hotels. In stories a character in a bathrobe is often just out of bed or relaxing. Phrases: a fluffy bathrobe, wrapped in a bathrobe.
Examples
- Dad came downstairs in his bathrobe. tree →
- The hotel gave us white fluffy bathrobes. tree →
- She wrapped herself in a bathrobe after her shower. tree →
- Hang your bathrobe on the hook behind the door. tree →
- Grandpa answered the door in his bathrobe and slippers. tree →
- I got a bathrobe with a hood for my birthday. tree →
Note
Countable: bathrobes. In the UK people often say «dressing gown»; «robe» is a shorter US word. One word, not «bath robe».
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «bathrobe» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «bathrobe» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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