- a variation of dishabille.
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
To my surprise, he was in wild deshabille, and far out of his usual phlegmatic self with excitement.
From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Karl Anderson
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
Boys and girls in all stages of deshabille clustered about the door-steps and gave vent to audible exclamations of approval or disapprobation concerning the state of affairs behind the green shutters.
From Violets and Other Tales by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Ladies also sat there, in what X. subsequently learnt was not altogether considered deshabille, namely, the sarong and kabaya of the country.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser
