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
He found the chief engineer standing before his desk in some deshabille, filling a black briar.
From Command by William McFee
The sleeves of her dress were reversed, showing the forearms, which gave her an appearance of deshabille, homely, intimate, confiding.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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
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 Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
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