Deshabille [adjective]

If he had been one of his own insane paupers en deshabille he could not have excited more astonishment or more consternation.

I grant that they deck Nature with somewhat too prolix a grace; but is beauty always best seen in deshabille?

He was in deshabille and was sweeping out his office with a hard brush and shovel.

At nine o'clock, accordingly, the hands were turned-to, and before noon the ship was pretty thoroughly en deshabille.

Her deshabille was without doubt an embarrassment Already he was beginning to find excuses for her.

Elizabeth Talbert is one of those women whose attraction increases with the negligee or the deshabille.

She came to herself in a normal condition and apologised to the missionary for her state of deshabille.

Therewith he hurried Aurelia down stairs, his wife being in such a state of deshabille that she could not follow.

A woman was sitting in deshabille by the window; a man was smoking on a lounge against the wall.

I permitted one to alight on my flannel pyjamas, which I wore while en deshabille in camp.