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

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)

"After all," she said, "it does not very much matter, my dear Annot, if you all will kindly excuse our enforced deshabille, as I understand you are quite alone—just your own family party."

From Fairies Afield by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

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

The baron was not in the slightest degree “put out,” as the phrase is, at being detected in his present occupation and deshabille.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan