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demi-toilette

demi-toilette noun: dress that is elaborate but less so than full dress.

Noun

demi-toilette (uncountable)

  1. Dress that is elaborate but less so than full dress.
    • The morning had been one of great fatigue, so that but few of the court were admitted; and Anne of Austria herself was in that demi-toilette so favourable to the twilight of beauty. She wore a loose dress of gray silk, edged with black, and fastened with loops of pearl.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 211

Forms of demi-toilette

alternative formdemitoilet

Questions about demi-toilette

What does demi-toilette mean?
Demi-toilette means dress that is elaborate but less so than full dress.
What part of speech is demi-toilette?
Demi-toilette is a noun.

Words near demi-toilette in the dictionary

  1. demi-savage
  2. demi-sec
  3. demi-secs
  4. demi-tasse
  5. demi-tasses
  6. demi-toilette
  7. demi-vegetarian
  8. demi-vegetarians
  9. demi-vierge
  10. demibastion
  11. demibastions

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