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
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
Everyone had come out, guests and 238 servants alike, in varying stages of deshabille, which might under ordinary circumstances have struck one as comic enough, but the supposed Farnham was nowhere to be seen.
From The House by the Lock by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
As Dr. John says, there is nothing slip-shod, or in deshabille, in him.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
John smiled to see Harry from morning to night in deshabille as workmanlike as possible, with a foot rule or hammer constantly in his hand.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
