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Not wearing clothing; not covered by clothing, hair, feathers, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- 1931, Hugh Walpole, Judith Paris, London: Macmillan, Part 2, “The Clipping,” p. 356, He sat there thinking of his youth, of fighting a man bare-skin in White haven and throttling him [...]
- 1940, W. H. D. Rouse (translator), Nonnos Dionysiaca, Cambridge: Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, Nonnos XVI, p. 3, Then Dionysos saw the girl swimming in the water bareskin, and his mind was shaken with sweet madness by the fiery shaft [shot by Eros].
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In which participants do not wear clothing. (of an activity or event)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- 1911, Mrs. Todd Lunsford, “As the Twig is Bent,” Kindergarten Journal, Chicago Kindergarten College Alumnae Association, Volume 6, No. 4, p. 141, After your babe’s next bath, put him freely on the bed still in his birthday clothes [...] I happen to know one mother who has made daily practice of this bareskin play with her youngest child.
- 1942, “Campus Caravan,” The George Washington University Hatchet, Volume 39, No. 14, 15 December, 1942, p. 2, [...] the WAAC, A.W.O.L. from Ft. Des Moines, who was found doing a bareskin act in a local burlesque, was a misguided miss who had taken these Navy “Strip for Action” posters too seriously.
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