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

In morning, in deshabille, not all the venerability of its age can make it respectable.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various

He found the chief engineer standing before his desk in some deshabille, filling a black briar.

From Command by McFee, William

And so they walked up stairs and into the drawing-room, and sent their compliments to Mrs. Sturk, who came down in deshabille, with her things pinned about her, and all over smiles.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I knocked at one at a hazard, and was rejected by a large woman in deshabille.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter