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 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 Lee, Minnie Mary

After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

He knew nothing of deshabille, and always left his bath-room fully dressed for the day.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

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)