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Webster 1913 Edition

Dishabille

Disˊha-bille′

,
Noun.
[See
Deshabille
.]
An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
They breakfast in
dishabille
.
Smollett.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dishabille

DISHABILLE

, DISHABIL,
Noun.
[See Habit.] An undress; a loose negligent dress for the morning. But see Deshabille, the French and more correct orthography. Dryden uses the word as a participle. Queens are not to be too negligently dressed or dishabille. In this use, he is not followed.

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