deshabille
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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
His morning gown was quite a tasteful, and even an expensive article, and his slippers, heavily embroidered, harmonized admirably with the whole fashionable deshabille in which he often distributed justice.
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"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 G. J. Whyte-Melville
They appeared somewhat in deshabille, and looked very astonished at being called out of their beds by the young Englishman.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
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