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bare-breasted

bare-breasted

4 7.3
Not wearing clothing over the breasts
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɛrˈbrɛstɪd/
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: desnuda
  • While men usually wear a length of tradestore cloth wrapped around the hips or a ragged pair of shorts, most women continue to go bare-breasted and wear skirts of shredded coconut leaf.
  • bare-breasted woman
  • bare-breasted female

Examples

  • Here, it is the old women who move, bare-breasted, through the fields.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • One, probably a young Moon Goddess, emphasizes a voluptuous, youthful figure, often bare-breasted.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Yet Ovahimba women, for example, go bare-breasted in winter and summer and have built a whole culture of body and hair ornamentation and music around that practice.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Like Gropper's illustration, Gellert's workers are bare-breasted to reveal their strength and are engaged in quiet concentration on their task.

    Academic text (2002)
  • "C'mon," Trish says to Cindy and Kimberly, and the three of them squeeze by Bobbi, who's still bare-breasted.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Black-and-white photographs of bare-breasted Native women in Burnett's books illustrate and offset his sophisticated, elaborate, and scientific-sounding prose.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The first (Figure 1.6, p. 39) appears initially to be a relatively conventional rendering of the primitive: a bare-breasted young black woman is posed against a background of thatch and mud huts.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The women in these photographs would have worn modern dress by the time Burnett arrived, but he indulges his readers' fantasies by presenting posed, bare-breasted, grass-skirted women as if they were contemporary.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The festival featured women dancing bare-breasted to celebrate their cultural heritage.

  • In the warm sunlight, she basked in the beauty of nature, bare-breasted and free.

Synonyms

topless
vsbare-breasted
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65 6.2

Not wearing clothes on the upper body, with the breasts uncovered

is used only for women and focuses on breasts being uncovered
shirtless
vsbare-breasted
29 1.8

Not wearing a shirt

refers specifically to women with breasts uncovered rather than any upper body nakedness

Antonyms

659 1.0

Having something on top or around it

37 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

How Exposed

bare-breasted
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4 7.3
topless
  • NSFW
65 6.2

Surface Forms

bare-breasted positive

Morphology

bare-breasted = bare + breasted (transparent) = bare + breast + ed

A straightforward compound of 'bare' + 'breasted' (where 'breasted' = 'having breasts'), so the meaning 'having the breasts uncovered' is directly deducible.

Etymology

Bare-breasted is simply two words put together: bare means 'naked' and breast means 'the chest', so bare-breasted describes a woman who has her breasts uncovered.