robe de chambre

Example Sentences

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The young man who wore a robe-de-chambre and Turkish slippers worked in gold, returns my salaam courteously and invites me up to the divan.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

He is very old, was dressed in a robe-de-chambre of blue sattan and gold spots on it, with a sort of blue sattan cap and tassle of gold.

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

In winter we lived facing his house, and he came to us almost every day in his short red robe-de-chambre, with a green fur cap on his head, and a pipe in his hand.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

Thin, and of middle height, a long dark-green robe-de-chambre made him appear tall, and the little Julienne thought she had never seen so grand an old man before.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Mrs. Mackenzie, in a robe-de-chambre and cap very different from yesterday's, came out eagerly to meet the physician on the landing.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace