- 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
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
After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Sophy entering in a similarly comfortable deshabille, and approaching the hearth, hairbrush in hand, surprised her sister looking contemplatively into the flames and smiling at her thoughts.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young
"Nine pieces for my coat and the rest," said Sir Asinus persuasively; "it is really impolite to be playing with your Excellency in such deshabille as this."
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
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