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

He was thus incoherently raging when the scene was 316 interrupted by the arrival of the landlord and inn servants in various degrees of deshabille, and to them I gave my temporary lunatic in charge.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

As Dr. John says, there is nothing slip-shod, or in deshabille, in him.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

They contain a great deal of pleasant matter; and the letters are evidently, in general, the work of a higher order of persons than the world has often an opportunity of seeing in their deshabille.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

"Men are so uncertain, my dear," said her ladyship, sitting in a morning deshabille, with her long black hair combed straight out over her shoulders and reaching nearly to her knees.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.