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View synonyms for dishabille
dishabille
[ dis-uh-beel, -bee ]
noun
- the state of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner; undress.
- a garment worn in undress.
- a loose morning dress.
- a disorderly or disorganized state of mind or way of thinking.
dishabille
/ ˌdɪsæˈbiːl /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dishabille1
First recorded in 1665–75; from French déshabillé, noun use of past participle of déshabiller “to undress,” equivalent to dés- negative or reversing prefix; + habiller “to dress”; dis- 1, habiliment
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Example Sentences
This gentleman now appeared altogether as full-dressed as he had before been in full dishabille.
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Lady Eleanor, who scarcely looked as well in dishabille as her daughter, might feel offended.
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As on shipboard and at The Briars, he gave his mornings to literature, clad in a studied, picturesque dishabille.
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When they present him, as for the most part they do, in dishabille, they exhibit him very greatly to his disadvantage.
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She seems to be typical of the half-crazed human poetess, in usual sublime dishabille.
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