deshabille
Example Sentences
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Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille.
From Time Magazine Archive
After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
The lamps had been extinguished—the coach atmosphere was heavy with oil smell and the exhalations of human beings in all stages of deshabille.
From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton
Suddenly an old maid appeared in her dressing-gown and, catching sight of her niece in worse than deshabille, shouted out, 'Maria, come here, you disgraceful creature.
From Australia Revenged by Boomerang, pseud.
His morning gown was quite a tasteful, and even an expensive article, and his slippers, heavily embroidered, harmonized admirably with the whole fashionable deshabille in which he often distributed justice.
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
