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
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
In morning, in deshabille, not all the venerability of its age can make it respectable.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
As Dr. John says, there is nothing slip-shod, or in deshabille, in him.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
"Nine pieces for my coat and the rest," said Sir Asinus persuasively; "it is really impolite to be playing with your Excellency in such deshabille as this."
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
