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Nudity Adam and Eve unashamed in Eden without clothes. [O.T.: Genesis 2:25] hair grew to cover her nakedness. [Christian Hagiog.: Daniel, 21] stage entertainment to which was added striptease dancing. [Am. Hist.: EB, II: 383–384] ascetic Jainist sect whose members went naked. [Jainism: NCE, 1392] (d. 1057) rode naked through Coventry to secure tax reduction for the people. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 471] ancient Indian philosophers forsook clothing. [Asian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 396] (1914–1970) American burlesque artiste. [Am. Hist.: Halliwell, 429] Goya’s celebrated picture of woman in the nude. [Span. Art: Spain, 246–247] nubile woman exhibited au naturel in centerfold of every issue. [Am. Magazines: Playboy] half-naked marble Aphrodite. [Gk. Art: Os-borne, 1184] English lady shocks the populace by publicly disrobing when drunk. [Br. Lit.: South Wind in Magill II, 988] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I was amused at the appearance of four or five old women who, in a state of utter nudity, with their arms extended flatly down their sides, and holding themselves perfectly erect, were leaping stiffly into the air, like so many sticks bobbing to the surface, after being pressed perpendicularly into the water. Dim, flattened, constrained by their confinement, they had never appealed to her as now, when they wandered in the still air with a stark quality like that of nudity. Not that this inward amazement of Dorothea's was anything very exceptional: many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to "find their feet" among them, while their elders go about their business. |
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