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Example sentences for "dishabille"

Lexicographically close words:
disgustful; disgusting; disgustingly; disgusts; dish; disharmonic; disharmonies; disharmony; dishcloth; dishclout
  1. It is no longer the custom in American packet ships for ladies to persevere in what is called a sea-dress: that is, a sort of dishabille prepared expressly for the voyage.

  2. Mrs. Washington Potts," said Albina, "is of opinion that a young lady should never be seen in dishabille by a gentleman.

  3. She wore a loose red wrap trimmed with white fur, a dishabille unusually and provokingly attractive.

  4. She looked at him as though she had noticed his dishabille for the first time.

  5. Slim and frank as a boy in her half-adjusted blanket-wrapper dishabille she smiled up at me through the amazing mop of gold hair with the gray streak floating like a cloud across the sunshine of her face.

  6. Her eyes were swollen with grief, her hair disheveled, and she appeared in all the dishabille of unutterable anguish.

  7. The maid having put me to bed that night, as usual, I had no time to dress myself again after I got up; so was in the most loose dishabille that can be imagined.

  8. Reading further, we find that this dishabille companionship involves visits by way of the back door and at all sorts of unconventional hours.

  9. He only now noticed her angry mien and the strange dishabille in which she appeared before him.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishabille" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dishabille; nude; undress; wrap; wrapper