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
The baron was not in the slightest degree “put out,” as the phrase is, at being detected in his present occupation and deshabille.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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 Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
The last reserve tumbled from their sleeping-places in various stages of deshabille, all talking excitedly.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
