robe-de-chambre
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robes-de-chambre
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Thin, and of middle height, a long dark-green robe-de-chambre made him appear tall, and the little Julienne thought she had never seen so grand an old man before.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
After throwing over his shoulders his robe-de-chambre Mr. Bennett asked, "Where do you think Livingstone is?"
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
The young man who wore a robe-de-chambre and Turkish slippers worked in gold, returns my salaam courteously and invites me up to the divan.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
In winter we lived facing his house, and he came to us almost every day in his short red robe-de-chambre, with a green fur cap on his head, and a pipe in his hand.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Mercedes sat at the desk in her bedroom attired in a robe-de-chambre, and rapidly and feverishly wrote.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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