Definition of Dishabilles

1. dishabille [n] - See also: dishabille

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishabilles

dish face
dish out
dish pig
dish rack
dish racks
dish stand
dish the dirt
dish towel
dish up
dish washer
dishabilitate
dishabilitated
dishabilitates
dishabilitating
dishabille
dishabilles (current term)
dishabit
dishabited
dishabits
dishabituate
dishabituated
dishabituates
dishabituating
dishabituation
dishabituations
dishable
dishabled
dishables
dishabling
dishallow

Literary usage of Dishabilles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"For, don't suppose, because I caution you against all day-dishabilles, that I want to fix you with a worthy creature, whom it will make you extremely ill ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"We," says our friend, " were rather in our dishabilles ; but 'twas no matter, we were travelers, and they were none of them in the habit of regarding a ..."

3. The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St. James's by Leigh Hunt (1848)
"The fair sex at this time waxed and waned through all the varieties of dishabilles, hoop-petticoats and stomachers. We must not enter upon this boundless ..."

4. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"... in scarlet uniform, and the Members of Assembly in black dishabilles, of which two classes of persons the greater part of the company was composed. ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
""We," says our friend, " were rather in our dishabilles ; but 'twas no matter, we were travelers, and they were none of them in the habit of regarding a ..."

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