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robeLong and loose flowing outer garment, often the official dress used to indicate the profession of a peer, judge, or academic. The term ‘gown’ is also used. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| We soon learn that the apartment they now share with her father, his girlfriend, and a number of roomers is unacceptable because her son is too much exposed to vice: her father's girlfriend, in particular, gives him beer, puffs of her cigarettes, and glimpses of her ample bosom through the always unbuttoned opening of her housecoat. In fact, they left the Old World, with its regular famines and emaciated lower classes, for almost precisely the opposite reason: They dreamed of living in a country where even the masses struggled to squeeze into relaxed fit jeans and size 18 housecoats. I am tired of standing, and the basement, despite the gas heater chugging in the corner, is uncomfortably cold for me, already in my housecoat. |
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