robe de chambre

Example Sentences

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After throwing over his shoulders his robe de chambre, Mr. Bennett asked: 'Where do you think Livingstone is?'

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

Young Vermoncey had just risen; he was dressed in a robe de chambre, and was lying back carelessly in a capacious easy-chair.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de

Lifting the porti�re inside, she entered the sleeping-room, and found the robe de chambre hanging over the back of a chair.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

A showy Turkish cloak, or robe de chambre, had superseded my laced jacket, purple pantaloons, and hussar boots.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

Augustus III donned a robe de chambre and smoked a pipe in his own apartment, for the smell of tobacco was forbidden in the rooms which he shared in common with the Queen.

From Count Br?hl by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy