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Definition of Housedresses
1. housedress [n] - See also: housedress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housedresses
Literary usage of Housedresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown (1994)
"She would also need to wear her housedresses for two years. ... Her housedresses
had to last three years. Her winter coat had to last five years, ..."
2. Girl's Clubs, Their Organization and Management: A Manual for Workers by Helen Josephine Ferris (1918)
"Making of shirtwaists, skirts and housedresses. Use of commercial patterns for
garment-making and dressmaking. Mending and remodeling. ..."
3. Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home by Christine Frederick, American School of Home Economics (1919)
"... such as housedresses, aprons, and underclothing which have no particular style,
can be cut out by the hundred, and made by unskilled workers. ..."
4. Model of Community Policing: The Singapore Story by David H. Bayley (1996)
"The men are usually dressed in boxer-style underpants; the women in baggy
housedresses, ankle-length sarongs, or printed pants and short-sleeved shirts. ..."
5. Report of the Richmond, Indiana, Survey for Vocational Education by Indiana State Board of Education, Richmond (Ind.). Board of Education, Indiana University, Robert Josselyn Leonard (1916)
"Her work may include shopping, designing, cutting, fitting, sewing, and finishing,
but it is limited largely to plain sewing; aprons, housedresses, ..."
6. Legislative Document by New York (State). Legislature (1919)
"For example, it is desirable to give the child a choice between two equally good
colors when the mother's housedresses or other dresses are bought, ..."
7. Annual Report (1919)
"For example, it is desirable to give the child a choice between two equally good
colors when the mother's housedresses or other dresses are bought, ..."
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