Halfdressed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.

    "Colette screamed up the stairs and halfdressed girls and their halfdressed customers hurried and stumbled and got up again and made it into the street where they all began pointing and yelling and then the street shook itself alive as the fire spred quickly across the third floor and fell into the second floor."

Example

More examples

"Colette screamed up the stairs and halfdressed girls and their halfdressed customers hurried and stumbled and got up again and made it into the street where they all began pointing and yelling and then the street shook itself alive as the fire spred quickly across the third floor and fell into the second floor."

Etymology

From half- + dressed.

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