housecoat

noun

1. (Canada, US)A bathrobe or dressing gown.
2. (Australia)A longish dress-like garment of one piece, fastening down the front, worn about the house.

   “They went downstairs in their gay cotton house-coats and found Mrs Dibble in the kitchen, doddering over a lunch that required no preparation, being merely a section of ham sausage and a few pickled onions.”

   “Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.”