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

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

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

Sophy entering in a similarly comfortable deshabille, and approaching the hearth, hairbrush in hand, surprised her sister looking contemplatively into the flames and smiling at her thoughts.

From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills

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