• IPA: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ ɡaʊn/

dressing gown (plural dressing gowns)

1. (UK) An item of clothing often made from cotton or another absorbent material, in the form of a long open robe with a belt to tie it around the middle and fasten it securely; often worn over pyjamas.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VII and XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:

     I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the headmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. [...] She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

• bathrobe

• French: robe de chambre, peignoir
• German: Morgenrock, Morgenmantel, Schlafrock, Bademantel
• Italian: vestaglia
• Portuguese: roupão
• Russian: хала́т
• Spanish: batín, bata