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

"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.

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

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)

It was the lawyer, in deshabille and very rough-haired; and very angry he looked.

From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by French, Joseph Lewis