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adjective

Nude adj.

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

(Law) Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum.

The nude, the undraped human figure in art.

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Etymology of 'Nude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nude" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the sight of some living thing there upon those high peaks. Silence supreme and dreadful, in which even their voices, hushed and tremulous, sounded profane, cowed them by its unending solemnity and the relentless grip. Gray and nude save for their pall of dust the mountains rose into the sky, eternal in their ghostly majesty. And the dark valleys between with their gray lips of death looked like the ...

— Omega, the Man • Lowell Howard Morrow

... under a cross of strips of plaster, could not obtain dismissal for him. And he had one eye of sinister hue, showing beside its lighted-grey fellow as if a sullen punished dragonwhelp had couched near some quick wood-pigeon. The two eyes blinked rapidly. He was a picture of Guilt in the nude, imploring ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... deed was done. 'Erb, with his accustomed push, Was advancing when the bush Dragged the last remaining stitches From the bag he called his breeches, Leaving nothing but the dregs Of the red stripe down his legs. 'Erbert paused; though not a prude, He had never liked the nude. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919 • Various

... sang, and thy loves, O Thalassian, O 'noble and nude and antique!' Unashamed in the 'fearless old fashion' Ere washing was done by the week; When the 'roses and rapture' that girt you Were visions of delicate vice, And the 'lilies and languors of virtue' Not nearly ...

— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman

... your kilt skirt there, While we sat smoking our cigarettes (Oh, I shall be dust when my heart forgets') And singing that self-same an, And between the verses, for interlude, I kissed your throat and your shoulders nude. ...

— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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