This would be such a great 'housedress' for me to clean in and those pockets would be great to aid in that endeavor. From Wordnik.com. [Sale! - A Dress A Day] Reference
I noticed at once the torn pocket of her housedress. From Wordnik.com. [The Welkening] Reference
Her hair was tangled and unkempt, her housedress dirty. From Wordnik.com. [Baby Games] Reference
A black woman in a flowered housedress came to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
I love it because it is a housedress and someone made it. From Wordnik.com. [The Collector: Jason Wu] Reference
She wears a housedress, her stockings rolled to her knees. From Wordnik.com. [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference
That is of course how I ended up with the wacky housedress. From Wordnik.com. [Sinuses be damned, I want cupcakes!] Reference
I bet Walmart starts making them for their housedress line. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference
A redheaded woman in a housedress was handcuffed to the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Stalin's Ghost]
She wears a housedress in a lime green color if you cannot tell. From Wordnik.com. [Three Photos] Reference
She wears a housedress in a lime green color if you cannot tell. From Wordnik.com. [Three Photos] Reference
"Dix make" housedress, white piqué, size 38 1 copy of "Main Street". From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
She had on a gray calico housedress with pink flowers that I admired. From Wordnik.com. [Stillwater] Reference
She wore a navy floral housedress and on her feet were canvas slip-ons. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer Girl]
Jonathan's grimy fingers fumbled with the buttons of her faded housedress. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Bosses]
Miss Olive appeared, her housedress misbuttoned and her hair flat on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I gave her the five and she made it disappear into the folds of her housedress. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
Already washed and neat, wearing a pale-blue housedress, she opened the curtains. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
She wore a neat housedress covered by a half-apron, which she fingered nervously. From Wordnik.com. [Starting from Scratch] Reference
Florence rolled her eyes and picked at the pocket of her Hawaiian-print housedress. From Wordnik.com. [Undercover Vows]
Maryjo was standing in the door, wearing a frilly housedress, her eyes wide with horror. From Wordnik.com. [Changed Man and the King of Words]
She wears thick, pink-framed glasses, red lipstick, a flowered housedress, and sneakers. From Wordnik.com. [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference
She was wearing the cutest housedress, blue stripes with big white buttons down the front. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
A short, wrinkled, dark-eyed woman in a print housedress was eying him with deep suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
On a curvy girl, I suspect it would look like a particularly unfortunate choice of housedress. From Wordnik.com. [Ahead of the (bust) curve - A Dress A Day] Reference
Mrs. Swanson waited there, holding a burning candle, a black housedress over her nightclothes. From Wordnik.com. [Fateful Journeys] Reference
I don't mean to make excuses for my own pitiful performance, but I had a housedress handicap. From Wordnik.com. [concours - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I don't mean to make excuses for my own pitiful performance, but I had a housedress handicap. From Wordnik.com. [concours - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I figured this out along about page 10, where the author refers to a "frumpy fifties housedress.". From Wordnik.com. [April 2009] Reference
She had that Mommystyle thing going on: blue housedress, frilly apron, Betty Crocker white gloves. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives] Reference
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