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dishabille

adjective as in undressed

noun as in bareness

noun as in negligee

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As recently as a decade ago, it was a rarity to spot people on Fifth Avenue, in Washington Square Park, riding the subway or milling about at airports in various states of advanced dishabille.

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He appeared before the world as if in angry comic dishabille.

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“Prince Dain awaits her downstairs in General Madoc’s parlor. He commanded me to fetch her and not to mind whatever state of dishabille she was in. He said to carry her if I had to.”

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He wouldn’t be the first celebrity to turn up dishabille in the press against his wishes.

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The young woman in a state of dishabille soon gets her answer.

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