It was in this room that Princesse Mathilde, a dramatic figure in a long black hostess gown, welcomed them.

She wore a hostess gown and very little else.

The first thing that should be said about hostess gowns is that it is not, in fact, proper to use the term at all.

Bennett was gorgeous (a word the Vogue book says should be applied only to sunsets and highly colored objects), and her hostess gowns were, too.

By 5:45 P.M., Shirley has organized the food and the relatives and changed into a long hostess gown.

"I wasn't expecting you back so soon; this isn't exactly my hostess gown."

It might be worn as a hostess gown, for beach clothes, or simply as fashionable duds.

When the woman goes off to change into something more comfortable and reappears in a red hostess gown, the narrator does not seem to get the message.

For some reason she had chosen to put on a hostess gown.

Her store, now moved across the hall from her apartment, has the largest selection of such garments in Cairo and they are popular as hostess gowns.