halfdressed

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English

Etymology

half- +‎ dressed

Adjective

halfdressed (comparative more halfdressed, superlative most halfdressed)

  1. Wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 24, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 132:
      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.