Crossword-Solution: BAIGNOIRE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But I came within an inch of taking that girl _au sérieux_.” “You mean the young lady below stairs, in a _baignoire_ in a pink dress?” said Newman.

When I asked him to describe her he said you had her tucked away in a baignoire and he hadn’t actually seen her; but he saw the tail of her cloak, and somehow knew from that that she was pretty.

She found no play too tedious, no _entr'acte_ too long, no _baignoire_ too hot, no tissue of incidents too complicated, no situation too unnatural and no sentiments too sublime.

When the second act was over our friends passed out of their _baignoire_ into those corridors of tribulation where the bristling _ouvreuse_, like a pawnbroker driving a roaring trade, mounts guard upon piles of heterogeneous clothing, and, gaining the top of the fine staircase which forms the state entrance and connects the statued vestibule of the basement with the grand tier of boxes, opened an ambiguous door composed of little mirrors and found themselves in the society of the initiated.

Rooth, who wished to see the rest of the play, though she had sat it out on another occasion, expressed a returning relish for her corner of the _baignoire_ and gave her conductor the best pretext he could have desired for asking Basil Dashwood to be so good as to escort her back.