- 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
"After all," she said, "it does not very much matter, my dear Annot, if you all will kindly excuse our enforced deshabille, as I understand you are quite alone—just your own family party."
From Fairies Afield by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
To my surprise, he was in wild deshabille, and far out of his usual phlegmatic self with excitement.
From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Karl Anderson
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
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
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