- 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
The sleeves of her dress were reversed, showing the forearms, which gave her an appearance of deshabille, homely, intimate, confiding.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
John smiled to see Harry from morning to night in deshabille as workmanlike as possible, with a foot rule or hammer constantly in his hand.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
I knocked at one at a hazard, and was rejected by a large woman in deshabille.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
I found Mr. Stimcoe in deshabille, on the first-floor landing, under the derisive surveillance of Masters Doggy Bates, Bob Pilkington, and Scotty Maclean, whose graceless mirth echoed down to me from the stair-rail immediately overhead.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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