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
Sophy entering in a similarly comfortable deshabille, and approaching the hearth, hairbrush in hand, surprised her sister looking contemplatively into the flames and smiling at her thoughts.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young
The real reason was because she was in wretched deshabille, her face was swollen with weeping, and it would be such a weary work to do her hair.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
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
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
