deshabille

American  

[dez-uh-beel, -bee] / ˌdɛz əˈbil, -ˈbi /

noun

1. a variant of dishabille.

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deshabille British  

/ ˌdeɪzæˈbiːl /

noun

1. the state of being partly or carelessly dressed

2. archaic clothes worn in such a state

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Etymology

Origin of deshabille

C17: from French déshabillé undressed, from dés- _dis- ¹ + habiller to dress; see _habiliment

Example Sentences

Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Ladies also sat there, in what X. subsequently learnt was not altogether considered deshabille, namely, the sarong and kabaya of the country.

From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Keyser, Arthur 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)

Jermyn Street, was particularly fond of pink, and extremely susceptible to deshabille.

From The Crooked House by Fleming, Brandon