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 Bennett, Arnold

The real reason was because she was in wretched deshabille, her face was swollen with weeping, and it would be such a weary work to do her hair.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Lee, Minnie Mary

The lamps had been extinguished—the coach atmosphere was heavy with oil smell and the exhalations of human beings in all stages of deshabille.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

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 O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)