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
I found Mr. Stimcoe in deshabille, on the first-floor landing, under the derisive surveillance of Masters Doggy Bates, Bob Pilkington, and Scotty Maclean, whose graceless mirth echoed down to me from the stair-rail immediately overhead.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
As Dr. John says, there is nothing slip-shod, or in deshabille, in him.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Everyone had come out, guests and 238 servants alike, in varying stages of deshabille, which might under ordinary circumstances have struck one as comic enough, but the supposed Farnham was nowhere to be seen.
From The House by the Lock by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
