deshabille
Americannoun
noun
-
the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everyone had come out, guests and 238 servants alike, in varying stages of deshabille, which might under ordinary circumstances have struck one as comic enough, but the supposed Farnham was nowhere to be seen.
From The House by the Lock by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
When the priest, looking out, saw Dan Loftus in his deshabille, I believe he thought for a moment it was something from the neighbouring churchyard.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
He was thus incoherently raging when the scene was 316 interrupted by the arrival of the landlord and inn servants in various degrees of deshabille, and to them I gave my temporary lunatic in charge.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
After pressing the electric bell a dozen times at least, Winter appeared in deshabille, inclined to grumble.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
