deshabille

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The McTavish household was instantly in the room, some of them in deshabille--some armed--all alarmed Oh my!--oh me!"

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  • In the twenty years she had known him she had seen him in many conditions of emotional deshabille, but the secret weeping was something new. —  Deadly Duo: ‘Wanted, someone innocent’—‘Last act’ - Margery Allingham
  • He was in deshabille, appearing at first sight to be attired as the hinder part of a pantomine elephant, and was holding out in front of him a mighty woollen undervest. —  More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham - Campion 13
  • I was en deshabille, but quickly slipped on a long coat and ran out after him. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • The McTavish household was instantly in the room, some of them in deshabille--some armed--all alarmed Oh my!--oh me!" —  The Settler and the Savage
  • Miss Limpenny, in deshabille (but at a decent distance from the window), saw them arrive, and called Lavinia to look, with the result that within two minutes the sisters had satisfied themselves as to which was the cook, which the parlour-maid, and which the kitchen-maid Later in the day, a van-load of furniture arrived, though "The Bower" was already furnished; but, as Miss Limpenny said, in all these matters of comfort and refinement, "there are degrees." —  The Astonishing History of Troy Town
 

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