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

Sophy entering in a similarly comfortable deshabille, and approaching the hearth, hairbrush in hand, surprised her sister looking contemplatively into the flames and smiling at her thoughts.

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills

After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

I found Mr. Stimcoe in deshabille, on the first-floor landing, under the derisive surveillance of Masters Doggy Bates, Bob Pilkington, and Scotty Maclean, whose graceless mirth echoed down to me from the stair-rail immediately overhead.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Carleton, William