Dishabille

Quick meaning: Dishabille is a noun meaning Extreme casual or disorderly dress, for example, with the shirttail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.

Meaning

Extreme casual or disorderly dress, for example, with the shirttail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc.

More Meanings

1. A loose, negligent dress.

Example Sentences

She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […]

Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey!

When I rallied him for viſiting me in ſuch a diſhabille, he ſtood a tiptoe to view himſelf in the glaſs; and owning I was in the right, ſaid that he would go and dreſs himſelf before dinner.

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.

Word Forms

• dishabilles

Synonyms for dishabille

Depending on context, synonyms include deshabille.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deshabille, dishdashi, dishdash, daggle-tail, demi-toilette, dowdyism.

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