robe-de-chambre
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robes-de-chambre
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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
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
Mrs. Mackenzie, in a robe-de-chambre and cap very different from yesterday's, came out eagerly to meet the physician on the landing.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
He is very old, was dressed in a robe-de-chambre of blue sattan and gold spots on it, with a sort of blue sattan cap and tassle of gold.
From Books and Characters French and English by Giles Lytton Strachey
La Place was startled at the unusual request, and flew to his old friend, whom he found deeply engaged in being measured for a new peruke, and a taffety robe-de-chambre, earnestly enjoining the utmost expedition.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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