Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See dishabille.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An undress; a careless toilet.

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  • noun the state of being partially clothed
  • noun a garment worn when one is in a state of undress; a négligée

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  • noun the state of being carelessly or partially dressed

Etymologies

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French déshabille

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Examples

  • In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these “fierce vanities,” and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these "fierce vanities," and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • What I saw were hundreds of old black&white glossy promo photos of lovely ladies in various stages of, shall we say, "deshabille"...

    Interview: Sparky Lobo, Purveyor of Burlesque Memorabilia Burlesque Daily 2007

  • What I saw were hundreds of old black&white glossy promo photos of lovely ladies in various stages of, shall we say, "deshabille"...

    Archive 2007-11-01 Burlesque Daily 2007

  • “Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille,” said

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Lady Beaulyon, arrayed in a marvellous 'deshabille' of lace and pale blue satin, which would have been called by the up-to-date modiste

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Lady Beaulyon, arrayed in a marvellous 'deshabille' of lace and pale blue satin, which would have been called by the up-to-date modiste

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Lady Beaulyon, arrayed in a marvellous 'deshabille' of lace and pale blue satin, which would have been called by the up-to-date modiste

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • "Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille," said Cradell.

    The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848

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    August 3, 2016