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

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 Keyser, Arthur Louis

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 O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Cora, in a state of wild deshabille; John Arthur, ditto, and armed with a cane; Susan and Mary, half in the room and half out; then Céline Leroque, apparently much frightened, without knowing at what.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.