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Dishabille - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun dishabille

is extreme casual or disorderly dress, shirt tail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.

dishabille

English

Alternative forms

* deshabille

Noun

(-)
  • Extreme casual or disorderly dress, shirt tail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.
  • * 1817 , Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    • Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey!
  • * 1891 , Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    • A little after 3:15 o’clock yesterday afternoon a stream of people, hatless, coatless, some in an even worse state of dishabille rushed down the stairs or to the elevators of every one of the downtown buildings and onto the streets, their faces showing every sign of terror.
  • A loose, negligent dress.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
    • She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height [...].

    See also

    * deshabille * habiliment English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.