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

Dorothy agreed to go out if she were allowed time to change her things; but Lily declared that she was tired after the journey, and preferred to look at illustrated papers in deshabille.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

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

To my surprise, he was in wild deshabille, and far out of his usual phlegmatic self with excitement.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl

Boys and girls in all stages of deshabille clustered about the door-steps and gave vent to audible exclamations of approval or disapprobation concerning the state of affairs behind the green shutters.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore