- a variation of dishabille.
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
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
After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The last reserve tumbled from their sleeping-places in various stages of deshabille, all talking excitedly.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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
