Crossword clues for dishabille
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dishabille \Dis`ha*bille"\, n. [See Deshabille.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in dishabille.
--Smollett.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Extreme casual or disorderly dress, shirt tail out, sleeves unbuttoned, etc. 2 A loose, negligent dress.
WordNet
n. the state of being carelessly or partially dressed [syn: deshabille]
Usage examples of "dishabille".
Her miserable dishabille made her look almost ugly, and I wondered at the impression she had produced upon me at the fortress.
Brimmer and her friend Miss Chubb had entirely succumbed to the extreme dishabille of the Spanish toilet--not without a certain languid grace on the part of Mrs.
She never received me in her dishabille, and I had to wait with great patience until her maid had entirely dressed her before being admitted into her presence.
An elderly surgeon came every morning to dress her wound, during which operation her maid only was present, but I used to go, in my morning dishabille, to the girl's room, and to wait there, so as to be the first to hear how my dear one was.
Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off.