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déshabillé

déshabillé is the alternative spelling of deshabille.

Meaning of deshabille

Noun

deshabille (countable and uncountable, plural deshabilles)

  1. The state of being partially clothed.
    • We have witnessed the deshabille of Major Pendennis: will any man wish to be valet-de-chambre to our other hero, Costigan?1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 49, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  2. A garment worn when one is in a state of undress; a négligée.

Forms of déshabillé

pluraldéshabillés

Origin of déshabillé

Unadapted borrowing from French déshabillé

Questions about déshabillé

What is déshabillé the alternative spelling of?
Déshabillé is the alternative spelling of deshabille.

Words near déshabillé in the dictionary

  1. dépôts
  2. dérailleur
  3. dérailleurs
  4. dérive
  5. dérives
  6. déshabillé
  7. désintéressement
  8. Désirée
  9. désoeuvré
  10. détente
  11. détentes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: déshabillé (page history and authors); deshabille (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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