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minus-squareDefault_DefectlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down2·6 months ago googles “dressing gown” Robes I’ve never seen a robe referred to as a dressing gown before.
minus-squareboogetyboo@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·6 months agoThat’s what we call them in Australia, so I assume the poms call it that too. Probably the case in other Commonwealth countries also.
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agowe do, yes. I believe yanks also call them “Walmart Formal Wear.”
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIt’s an old-fashioned term in American English.
I’ve never seen a robe referred to as a dressing gown before.
That’s what we call them in Australia, so I assume the poms call it that too. Probably the case in other Commonwealth countries also.
we do, yes.
I believe yanks also call them “Walmart Formal Wear.”
It’s an old-fashioned term in American English.