DESHABILLE, a French term, naturalized of late. It properly signifies a night-gown, and other necessaries, made use of in dressing or undressing. Mr. — is not to be spoken with, he is yet in his deshabille, i. e. undressed or in his night-gown. The word is compounded of the privative de and habiller, "to dress one's self."
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