How To Use Deshabille In A Sentence
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The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
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Lady Beaulyon, arrayed in a marvellous 'deshabille' of lace and pale blue satin, which would have been called by the up-to-date modiste
God's Good Man
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With this melancholy account he left the room; and soon after her ladyship entered, with an air of interesting languor, and most attractingly dressed in an elegantly deshabille, of fine muslin, trimmed with beautiful lace.
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families
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In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these "fierce vanities," and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.
Kenilworth
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If I encounter a gentleman in such a state of déshabillé, I generally point and raise an eyebrow.
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La méthode reste valable et optimisée avec les doigts : en glissant le couteau le long de la crevette sous la carapace une fois la tête arrachée, on parvient à la deshabiller beaucoup plus facilement et à la récupérer en un seul morceau.
Décortiquer sa crevette sans douleur — Climb to the Stars
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The rococo piece of furniture presumed a body lost in pleasures: lounging en déshabillé, listening to music, or engaged in the serious pursuit of culinary marvels.
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The word dishabille (from the French déshabillé 'undressed', which still refers to a negligee) uses a common euphemism for nudity to refer to being partially or very casually dressed, a matter of comparison with the fashion-sensitive 'proper' dress, not to an actual revealing characteris - tic of the 'lesser' garments worn.
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The rococo piece of furniture presumed a body lost in pleasures: lounging en déshabillé, listening to music, or engaged in the serious pursuit of culinary marvels.
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As soon as Matthew is left alone with Theo and Isabelle, he finds himself out of his depth, constantly being invited into the bathroom and bedroom and challenged not to mind or notice their flagrant déshabille.
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As soon as Matthew is left alone with Theo and Isabelle, he finds himself out of his depth, constantly being invited into the bathroom and bedroom and challenged not to mind or notice their flagrant déshabille.
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A French language lesson follows with the Brother conjugating the reflexive verb deshabiller, ‘to undress’.
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His first design for her was a nightgown, a "deshabille" of white and rose organdy trimmed with lace and biscuit colored ribbons when she was hospitalized with a bout of her recurring heart ailment.
Cherie Burns: What's a Fashion Muse?
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If I encounter a gentleman in such a state of déshabillé, I generally point and raise an eyebrow.
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What I saw were hundreds of old black&white glossy promo photos of lovely ladies in various stages of, shall we say, "deshabille"...
Interview: Sparky Lobo, Purveyor of Burlesque Memorabilia
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I crave to render you in oil: capture your essence, your inmost coherence and your déshabillé.
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A French language lesson follows with the Brother conjugating the reflexive verb déshabiller, ‘to undress’.
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“Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille,” said
The Small House at Allington
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In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these “fierce vanities,” and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.
Kenilworth
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Ladies also sat there, in what X. subsequently learnt was not altogether considered _deshabille_, namely, the sarong and kabaya of the country.
From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India
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I crave to render you in oil: capture your essence, your inmost coherence and your déshabillé.
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And even if the heroine, having lost most of her garments, is in ragged, but utterly charming deshabille, she never forgets she is a lady.
Book 3
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Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille," said Cradell.
The Small House at Allington
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Hill wanted to channel Chung's low-key, deshabillé, coolest-girl-in-sixth-form sensibility; and also the boysy, briefcase-y spirit of the Elkington.
Money bags: the story behind Mulberry's Alexa
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Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena
The English Novel
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The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
