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
Examples of foreign words which we could hardly replace by English expressions are blasé, tête-à-tête, brusque, bourgeois, deshabille.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
He found the chief engineer standing before his desk in some deshabille, filling a black briar.
From Command by William McFee
They appeared somewhat in deshabille, and looked very astonished at being called out of their beds by the young Englishman.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
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 J. Clinton Shepherd
