- a variation of dishabille.
deshabille
Americannoun
noun
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the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
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archaic clothes worn in such a state
Etymology
Origin of deshabille
C17: from French déshabillé undressed, from dés- dis- 1 + habiller to dress; see habiliment
Example Sentences
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Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cora, in a state of wild deshabille; John Arthur, ditto, and armed with a cane; Susan and Mary, half in the room and half out; then Céline Leroque, apparently much frightened, without knowing at what.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
He was thus incoherently raging when the scene was 316 interrupted by the arrival of the landlord and inn servants in various degrees of deshabille, and to them I gave my temporary lunatic in charge.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Examples of foreign words which we could hardly replace by English expressions are blasé, tête-à-tête, brusque, bourgeois, deshabille.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
Ladies also sat there, in what X. subsequently learnt was not altogether considered deshabille, namely, the sarong and kabaya of the country.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser
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