robe-de-chambre
Americannoun
plural
robes-de-chambrenoun
Example Sentences
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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 Strachey, Giles Lytton
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 Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
One morning, when promenading in his robe-de-chambre, on a terrace elevated a little above the river, he saw a traveller thrown by a furious horse, from the opposite bank, into the midst of the torrent.
From The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various
Mercedes sat at the desk in her bedroom attired in a robe-de-chambre, and rapidly and feverishly wrote.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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 MacGillivray, William
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