Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of dishabille.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See dishabille.
Wiktionary
- n. the state of being partially clothed
- n. a garment worn when one is in a state of undress; a négligée
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An undress; a careless toilet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being carelessly or partially dressed
Etymologies
- French déshabille (Wiktionary)
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.”
“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.”
“What I saw were hundreds of old black&white glossy promo photos of lovely ladies in various stages of, shall we say, "deshabille"...”
““Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille,” said”
“Lady Beaulyon, arrayed in a marvellous 'deshabille' of lace and pale blue satin, which would have been called by the up-to-date modiste”
“Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena”
“Do you know, I like that kind of deshabille," said Cradell.”
“This is a kind of deshabille to go about early in the morning.”
“ÂMoving through the maze-like corridors of its endless rooms, one sees all these groupings of objects where the Belle Epoque meets deshabille chic, arranged ephemerally on tables and under bell jars.”
“Moving through the maze-like corridors of its endless rooms, one sees all these groupings of objects where the Belle Epoque meets deshabille chic, arranged ephemerally on tables and under bell jars.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deshabille’.
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the brothers
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amagnano's Words
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
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froseph's list
saritorial, pogrom, synecdoche, metonymy, tonsorial, prophylactic, ozymandias, nepenthe, tonsorial, tranche, allodium, allodial and 156 more...
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hagendas 2009
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Art and Artistry
More or less.
kitsch, sprezzatura, pastiche, willowy, haque, aplomb, insouciant, weft, froufrou, frippery, festoon, moustachioed and 8 more...
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Les mots emprunté
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Frenchie
Food and phrases
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sounds
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Favorite
avuncular, flan, hirsuite, tiffin, laconic, terse, dint, loquacious, lugubrious, languor, ægis, onus and 35 more...
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Your English sounds French
billet-doux, deshabille, moquette, legerdemain, étrenne, pourboire, purlieu, sang-froid
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