nude
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," fromMiddle Englishnud,fromLatinnūdus(“naked, bare”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nude(comparativenuder,superlativenudest)
- Withoutclothingor other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
- Why do you act so prudish whenever you seenudepeople?
- 2019December 19, Elaine McCahill, “I said no to 'Game of Thrones'nudescene, says 'Charlie' actress Sinead Watters”,Irish Independent:Charlie's breakout star Sinead Watters has revealed that she said no to anuderole in Game of Thrones.
- (of clothing, makeup, etc)Of a color (such asbeigeortan) that evokesbareflesh.
- 2007,Brenda Janowitz,Scot On The Rocks,→ISBN,page113:
- Vanessa always wore the same color on both her hands and feet—Hitchcock Blonde—a barely-therenudecolor with a dash of pink that was only two shades away from clear topcoat. It was the sort of thing you would imagine Grace Kelly in[…]
- 2010,Raquel Welch,Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage,→ISBN,page143:
- It gave me a lovely, natural, but juicy color. To correct the shape of my mouth, I lined my lips with anudecolor like MAC's Spice mixed with Mochaberry Automatic Lip Liner, blending the liner very carefully to make sure there was no hard edge.
- 2012,Dilvin Yasa,Things My Daughter Needs to Know,→ISBN:
- Do not, under any circumstances (even if grunge is back in), wear a white or black bra under light-coloured clothing – only anudebra will do.
- 2016June 2, “Company releasesnudechest binder line for different skin tones”, inWashington Blade[1]:
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nude.
- (law,archaic)Notvalid;void.
- 1825,Sir William Hay Macnaghten,Principles and Precedents of Moohummudan Law:
- A void sale is that which can never take effect; in which the articles opposed to each other, or one of them, not bearing any legal value the contract isnude.
Synonyms
[edit]- (naked):SeeThesaurus:nude
- (skin-colored):flesh-colored,skin-colored,carnation
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Noun
[edit]nude(pluralnudes)
- Apainting,sculpture,photographor otherartworkor mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or totalundress.
- Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing malenude;Michelangelo also created several othernudes.
- Lexa sent me anudelast week.
- (with article,"the nude")The state of totalnudity.
- she caught himinthe nude
- A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.
- 2013,Debra,How to be a Man Magnet[2]:
- What eye shadow looks best on my eye color? Brown eyes – Off whites,nudes,peaches, and purples.
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “nude”,inLexico,Dictionary;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]Interlingua
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed fromEnglishnude,Italiannudo,FrenchnuandSpanishnudo/Portuguesenu(alsodesnudoanddesnudo), all fromLatinnūdus.
Adjective
[edit]nude(comparativeplusnude,superlativeleplusnude)
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
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[edit]nude
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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[edit]nūde
References
[edit]- “nude”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pali
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[edit]nude
Portuguese
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[edit]nude(Brazil)mor(Portugal)f(pluralnudes)
- (Internetslang)nude(photographof anakedperson)
Romanian
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[edit]nude
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishnude.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nudef(pluralnudes)
- nude(a photograph of a naked person)
- Juan me envió unanudela semana pasada.
- Juan sent me anudelast week.
Usage notes
[edit]According toRoyal Spanish Academy(RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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